Brian, I've added support in GDAL trunk for those files. I could see that at least another GIS software supported them, so...
Even > Even, > > I am not sure what generated it. It seems as though I have run across a lot > of files that have a BOM that have thrown me in recent years. Most seem to > have some relation to using Microsoft .net framework tools that have > Unicode support built in from the ground up. But I am really not sure and > that is just a guess. Some text editors seem to do it also. I just know > that it has caused me all sorts of grief over the years with all sorts of > software I have both used and written. > > Here is what I have used in the past for the BOM list although the EF BB BF > is by far the most common I have seen... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark > > Anyway I have attached a shapefile that has a bom marker in the prj file. > Not sure yet about the other files...if they have any similar anomalies or > exactly what was used to gen the shapefile. I haven't looked at the shp, > shx or dbf file yet... > > Thanks, > > > Brian S. McCormick > [email protected] > 918-749-5453 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Even Rouault [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2014 12:32 PM > To: mccorb > Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Reading shapefile PRJ failing > > Le samedi 12 juillet 2014 18:45:24, vous avez écrit : > > So I have tracked this down to the fact that the PRJ files that I have > > been given to use have a BOM of 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF for the first three > > bytes of the file. > > > > When I use the shapefiles that have these byte order markers the Layer > > class method getSpatialRef() (java JNI bindings) returns null. I am > > guessing that the PRJ file is being opened in binary mode instead of > > text mode possibly? > > > > Regardless, is there any setting I can make to coerce the file > > opener/reader into ignoring the BOM when grabbing the WKT from the PRJ > > file? > > Not really. GDAL should be enhanced to support such a file. Do you have a > sample of such a .prj ? Do you know which software has generated it ? > That's the first time I hear about .prj with BOM marker. > > > thanks > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Reading-shapefile-PRJ-failing-tp51 > > 5077 8.html Sent from the GDAL - Dev mailing list archive at > > Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > > gdal-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > > -- > Geospatial professional services > http://even.rouault.free.fr/services.html -- Geospatial professional services http://even.rouault.free.fr/services.html _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
