Hello list, unfortunately I have to work with data in different encodings. Most of my data is in UTF-8 in a Postgis Database, so I decided to go with the mapfile encoding in UTF-8 as well.
Some shapefiles I have are in windows-1252 or iso-8859-1 and have of course special characters in some fields. And I need to filter the data on these fields. So my question is: can I somehow escape the special characters to iso-8859-1 in my utf-8 mapfile so that the expression matches the data in the shapefile? Because right now I get a blank map. Obviously simply using the character "as is" in the mapfile does not work. I tried creating the character in iso-8859-1 in the console but I only get a diamond with a question mark in it and this doesn't work neither. I found out that the sequence for é is 0xc3a9 but I don't know what to do with that information ... Many thanks Frank _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
