Hi Sandro. Thank you very much for your answer. With that parameter (-W), am I changing the encoding of the DB or I am merely indicating the encoding of the source?
Regards. On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Sandro Santilli <s...@keybit.net> wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 02:56:28PM +0200, Mac Wind wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Using PostGIS 1.5 on Windows, I get this error message when trying to > > import a SHP: > > ---------------- > > Unable to convert data value to UTF-8 (iconv reports "Invalid argument"). > > Current encoding is "UTF-8". Try "LATIN1" (Western European), or one of > the > > values described at > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/multibyte.html. > > ---------------- > > > > Really my data are in Latin1 encoding, but I don't want to change the > > encoding of the DataBase into Latin1, but change the encoding of the SHP > > (in fact, of the DBF) into UTF-8. > > > > Which tool could I use to do this? Thank you very much. > > You don't have to change DB encoding, just tell the loader that your > data is in Latin1: > > $ shp2pgsql -W Latin1 ... > > --strk; > > ,------o-. > | __/ | Delivering high quality PostGIS 2.0 ! > | / 2.0 | http://strk.keybit.net - http://vizzuality.com > `-o------' > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >
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