Le mardi 06 septembre 2011 19:42:18, Hilda Villegas a écrit : > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to use the preliminary encoding support for shapefile/dbf as > you said in the Ticket #882, SHAPE_ENCODING configuration variable can > be used to override the interpretation, but I cannot find the valid > values for this SHAPE_ENCODING anywhere, What value should I use if I > want to write Unicode characters (UTF-8) in the DBF? >
To overrite the encoding when *writing*, you should the ENCODING layer creation option : ogr2ogr out.shp indatasource -lco ENCODING=UTF-8 Note: in that case, the encoding of the input datasource must be already encoded in UTF-8, which is the pivot encoding for OGR. The effect of -lco ENCODING=UTF-8 will be essentially to write a .cpg file with UTF-8 as its content. Apart from using a value of the form LDID/a_numeric_value where a_numeric_value is a value in the first column of table 9 of http://www.autopark.ru/ASBProgrammerGuide/DBFSTRUC.HTM (from 1 to 204), it is not entirely clear which other values are valid for the ENCODING parameter to have interoperability with other systems. The SHAPE_ENCODING configuration option/environment variable is to be used when you want to override the encoding indicated in the .dbf/.cpg file when reading a shapefile. It can be set to any valid value recognized by the iconv library, whose list you can get with iconv -l on a system with iconv binaries installed. In that case, OGR will recode from SHAPE_ENCODING to UTF-8. If you want no recoding to happen, you can set SHAPE_ENCODING="". _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
