I haven't run into this before myself, but I suspect that the character encoding for the boundaries files you're dealing with must be something other than UTF-8. The french characters are likely causing issues. Try opening up the file in Quantum GIS as a vector layer, and then do a "Save as" for that layer. Ensure you choose UTF-8 when you save the layer.
Tyler On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Sam Dyck <samueld...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I've been working with ogr2osm to convert shapefiles from MLI to > replace Sam Vekemans' Geobase imports of out of date provincial park > boundaries. Running the script gives me this error. > "Traceback (most recent call last): > File "ogr2osm/ogr2osm.py", line 783, in <module> > w.element("tag", k=tagKey.decode("utf-8"), v=tagValue.decode("utf-8")) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode > return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True) > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 1: > invalid continuation byte" > > JOSM gave me an error when I tried to open the file, I opened the file > in nano and found some tags not closed. Attempted to clean up the > file, but JOSM told me that file had no data. The shapefile itself is > fine, any ideas? > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca