Re: [mapserver-users] GetfeatureInfo-Request in an UTF-8 environment with shapfile in cp-1252

2011-02-09 Thread Milo van der Linden
Hello Andreas; What return type of getfeatureinfo are you using? There are three possibilities: http://mapserver.org/ogc/wms_server.html 1. text/plain 2. text/html 3. gml If you use text/html; you can set the character encoding to windows ansi:

Re: [mapserver-users] GetfeatureInfo-Request in an UTF-8 environment with shapfile in cp-1252

2011-02-09 Thread Milo van der Linden
I found a ticket that is related to this issue: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc23_ogr_unicode 2011/2/9 Milo van der Linden m...@dogodigi.net Hello Andreas; What return type of getfeatureinfo are you using? There are three possibilities: http://mapserver.org/ogc/wms_server.html 1.

RE: [mapserver-users] GetfeatureInfo-Request in an UTF-8 environment with shapfile in cp-1252

2011-02-09 Thread Siegel Andreas
Hi Tom. Thanks for your reply. But no, it is not an issue with ArcGIS. The link you sent me may prove useful anyway since we rely heavy on shapefiles and ArcGIS ist used by several of our colleges and contributors. My issue is this line of code: meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html;

Re: [mapserver-users] GetfeatureInfo-Request in an UTF-8 environment with shapfile in cp-1252

2011-02-09 Thread Milo van der Linden
There are errors in the usage of I think that: meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=x-mac-thai/meta is the correct one. http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset 2011/2/9 Siegel Andreas andreas.sie...@vorarlberg.at Hi Tom. Thanks for your reply. But no, it is

Re: [mapserver-users] GetfeatureInfo-Request in an UTF-8 environment with shapfile in cp-1252

2011-02-09 Thread Daniel Morissette
On 11-02-08 09:37 AM, Siegel Andreas wrote: Hi. Our mapserver-eniromnent entirely works in utf-8 (mapfiles, webserver, postgres, ..) with one exception, that is, all of our shapefiles. The shapfiles are created/updated in an Windows-environment by several, external contributors. Hence they are

Re: [mapserver-users] GetfeatureInfo-Request in an UTF-8 environment with shapfile in cp-1252

2011-02-09 Thread Yewondwossen Assefa
On 09/02/2011 7:34 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote: On 11-02-08 09:37 AM, Siegel Andreas wrote: Hi. Our mapserver-eniromnent entirely works in utf-8 (mapfiles, webserver, postgres, ..) with one exception, that is, all of our shapefiles. The shapfiles are created/updated in an Windows-environment by

[mapserver-users] GetfeatureInfo-Request in an UTF-8 environment with shapfile in cp-1252

2011-02-08 Thread Siegel Andreas
Hi. Our mapserver-eniromnent entirely works in utf-8 (mapfiles, webserver, postgres, ..) with one exception, that is, all of our shapefiles. The shapfiles are created/updated in an Windows-environment by several, external contributors. Hence they are encoded in Wiindows-ANSI (cp: 1252). If i

Re: [mapserver-users] GetfeatureInfo-Request in an UTF-8 environment with shapfile in cp-1252

2011-02-08 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hello, A quick thought that I had when I read your issue, is that I recently came across a similar issue when I was working with Japanese data. In that case for MapServer to display query results in my template properly, I had to change the character set in the HTML template file, otherwise

RE: [mapserver-users] GetfeatureInfo-Request in an UTF-8 environment with shapfile in cp-1252

2011-02-08 Thread Tom van der Putte
Hi Andreas, i looked it up, you can find it here: http://resources.arcgis.com/content/kbase?fa=articleShowd=21106 Unfortunately I'm not aware of any means to automate the process of exporting the shapefiles, so you'd have to do it by hand. Tom ___