The DBF header has some indication of charset; however it is often wrecked by programs. We found the only thing to do was allow people to override the default on a case by case basis (when working in eastern multibyte encodings). Often an application will contain a default charset - since an organisation will use just one.
Jody On 17/09/2009, at 6:12 AM, Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > I had a couple quick questions on the DbaseFileHeader class: > > - Is there a specific Charset I should be using as a parameter to the > constructor of this class. Right now I am just using the default > Charset object returned by the Charset.defaultCharset method. Forgive > me if this is obvious, as I don't recall working with Charset objects > before. > > - What does the boolean parameter named "useMemoryMappedBugger" do? > I'm guesing if this parameter is true buffering takes place, which is > quicker but uses a larger RAM footprint. Is this correct? > > If no one objects, I'll add some Javadoc comments to the class that > answer these questions. (Or maybe this info would be better on the > wiki.) > > Landon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart > your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and > stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register > now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
