On 11-09-07 12:59 PM, Chris Jackson wrote:
Hi all
I am having some issues with special characters in my application (sure
I am not the first!) and wondered what the best way is to 'clean up' the
data so I know it is specifically in a given format say UTF-8 or ISO. My
source data was from KML -> shp using ArcGIS 10 (though who knows what
the kml format was!). One would assume if using ArcMap on a UK machine
would give you an ISO output.... Should I copy the characters back into
the attribute table via ArcGIS (but what program should I use to copy
the characters from - Word...). I did use the ArcGIS export registry
setting to export my supposed ISO shapfile to UTF-8 format (but the
label rendering is wrong). Any ideas would be much appreciated!
Hi Chris,
My quick thoughts are:
- use ogr2ogr (the GDAL/OGR library) to do your conversion from KML to
shp (if you are on Windows, the MS4W product can help you with that
http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html)
- another option is to use the KML in its native format with MapServer
(http://www.mapserver.org/input/vector/kml.html), which is also possible
with MS4W
- if by "application" problems you mean map label problems with encoded
characters, this howto should help you:
http://www.mapserver.org/mapfile/labelencoding.html
Hope that helps.
-jeff
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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
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