Jukka Rahkonen <jukka.rahkonen <at> mmmtike.fi> writes: > > Jeff McKenna <jmckenna <at> gatewaygeomatics.com> writes: > > > > Hmm I have had to use the magical "-W" switch before with shp2pgsql to > > specify encoding; I wonder if with ogr2ogr you should pass a "-sql" > > switch with something like "SET CLIENT_ENCODING to UTF8" ? But I > > haven't tested that. > > It reads actually in the documentation http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_pg.html > Giving SET PGCLIENTENCODING=LATIN1 before running ogr2ogr helped. I had tried > first something that I read from the internet by giving > --config PGCLIENTENCODING LATIN1 but it did not work for me. One must not rely > on everything that is in the web.
Next trouble: I would now take the data back from PostGIS into Spatialite (it was much faster to do some processing with PostGIS) but the happens again: my non-ascii characters are converted to something invalid. I cannot see any SQLITECLIENTENCODING option or anything. -Jukka Rahkonen- _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev