Guys, Certainly the intention of RFC 23:
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc23_ogr_unicode Was that we consider OGR string fields to be utf8 and I believe that should be the default assumption. Best regards, Frank On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:17 PM, rburhum <r...@burhum.com> wrote: > Hello Tamas and Dennis, > > This is my personal opinion and there may tons of people that disagree, but > I think it is more sane to always assume UTF8 encoding. There is > functionality among the various drivers to accept/return strings in > different encodings (through the CPL_Recode mechanism) but they all do it > with different parameters (e.g. "PGCLIENTENCODING" in PostgreSQL, > "SHAPE_ENCODING" in ESRI Shapefiles, etc). Overly complicated for > programmatic access. > > Strings being set should use UTF8 encoding. Strings being read should > assume > UTF8 encoding. Not sure about the column names, layer names and such, but I > would rather find the drivers that are not assuming utf8 and fix those than > doing some extra complicated magic in the C# bindings. It simplifies logic > greatly. > > If the underlying data store is using Windows-1252 encoding internally, > that > should be handled and abstracted out by the driver itself (by doing the > conversions into utf8), not the bindings. > > My two cents, > > - Ragi > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/gdal-dev-GDAL-OGR-C-wrapper-and-UTF8-tp5044028p5044395.html > Sent from the GDAL - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer
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