Thank you for your suggestion. My GeoServer charset is set (in global
settings) to UTF-8 and my desktop GIS applications read properly non ANSI
characters from atribute tables so I don't exactly understand where I have
to set the charset.
Regads,
Michal
2011/3/4 Andrea Aime <[email protected]>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:47 PM, dersmich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> when I upload (using WinSCP) a Shapefile to my server where GeoServer
>> works
>> and add this shapefile as a layer in GeoServer, non-ansi characters in the
>> attribute table are changed. I checked it by downloading this file (using
>> again WinSCP) and opening it in QuantumGIS - non-ansi characters are
>> phisicaly changed and replaced by "strange" characters. GeoServer 2.0.2
>> which I use has UTF-8 charset.
>>
>> What can cause this fact, why the data are changed whitout my knowledge?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
>>
>
> The DBF specification originally allowed only for western chars, and that
> is still
> the default.
> In GeoServer if you have non ANSI chars in the DBF you have to set
> the charset so that GS knows how to interpret the non ansi chars in the
> DBF
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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