At the bottom of this page, for one: http://resources.arcgis.com/content/kbase?fa=articleShow&d=21106
But honestly I've found hard to find information about this. I'd be very happy to be corrected if this is not the case! Cheers, Francis On 5 July 2010 19:09, Hermann Peifer <[email protected]> wrote: > Francis, you wrote: > >> > I have heard that the use of UTF-8 in shapefiles is not portable. > > Where did you hear this? > > Regards, Hermann > > > On 03/07/2010 04:40, Francis Markham wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> >> I'm trying to write data from a Microsoft Excel .xls file into a >> shapefile, using OGR's Python bindings in Python 2.6. This is going >> well, but I am having some problems when I try to write values that >> contain so-called "smart quotes". Smart quotes are special >> characters, defined as characters 0x91 through 0x94 in Windows-1252 ( >> see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/goglobal/cc305145.aspx ). >> >> What is the best way to save this data to a shapefile using OGR? I >> need the shapefile to be interoperable with other programs, including >> but not limited to ESRI products. While I assume I could simply >> translate these characters to standard ASCII, I would prefer not to if >> possible. I also haven't tested the shapefiles with data from other >> character encodings. >> >> I have heard that the use of UTF-8 in shapefiles is not portable. I >> am also aware that shapefile.cpg can store a shapefile's codepage. I >> don't know how to put these pieces together to create a portable >> solution, however. >> >> Apologies if this is a newbie question, but I can't find answers on the >> web. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Francis Markham > > _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
