Except, to my knowledge, the OSM files are UTF8 encoded, so I'm surprised you are getting troubles loading them as UTF8.
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Paul Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote: > Just use the -w switch to specify WINDOWS-1252 as your encoding. > Should work fine from there. > > P. > > BTW, it shouldn't crash, it should just stop and show the error. Is > that what it is doing, or do you get honest-to-god coredumps? > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Clay, Bruce <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am trying to load OpenStreetMap and GDAM data from the shapefiles that >> were posted on the network. Some of the work file but those with special >> characters often fail or in came cases the application crashes. >> >> >> >> The error message get is - Unable to convert field value "<some osm name>" >> to UTF-8: iconv reports "Illegal byte sequence" >> >> >> >> DBF file character encoding is set to WINDOWS-1252 which if I am reading >> correctly should support Unicode characters. >> >> >> >> Based on comments posted on the net I also tried setting encoding to >> “Latin1” >> >> Any thoughts on how to correct this problem would be greatly appreciated. >> >> >> >> I am using PostgreSql version 8.8 and PostGis 1.5.1 >> >> >> >> Bruce >> >> >> >> This message and any enclosures are intended only for the addressee. Please >> notify the sender by email if you are not the intended recipient. If you >> are >> not the intended recipient, you may not use, copy, disclose, or distribute >> this >> message or its contents or enclosures to any other person and any such >> actions >> may be unlawful. Ball reserves the right to monitor and review all messages >> and enclosures sent to or from this email address. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> postgis-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >> >> > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
