The .cpg files we generate through ArcGIS desktop contain the string: UTF-8
Some time ago, there was a mail on this list about problems in case of
conflicting information in the .cpg file compared to the Language Driver
ID (LDID) in the header of a dBASE file, see:
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2010-May/024619.html
Hermann
On 06/07/2010 04:13, Francis Markham wrote:
Okay, I will take that approach then. Thank you all for your help.
What specific value should I write into the .cpg? The string '65001'
or the string 'utf-8' or something else?
-Francis
On 5 July 2010 21:53, Peter Hopfgartner<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Francis,
what does not portable mean? ArcMap handles UTF-8 fine, if the correct
encoding is written into the .cpg file. Recent shapelib should handle
this fine, too. If there is any problem with a specific GIS program, a
bug report for that GIS program might be the right thing to do.
Regards,
Peter
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 19:18 +1000, Francis Markham wrote:
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
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