Obviously it is easy enough to write the .CPG and overwrite a byte in
the DBF in application code. However, I would rather use the OGR API
for this. Would a patch providing this functionality be welcomed?
If I were to implement this, would a "dataset creation option" in the
shapefile driver be t
In the mentioned mail from earlier this year, William Kyngesburye wrote:
> Maybe GDAL needs a creation option in the shapefile driver
> to set the LDID or to instead add a cpg file with an encoding value.
As there was no reply to his mail, I assume that there is no GDAL/OGR
creation option for
It appears from
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2010-May/024619.html and
http://resources.arcgis.com/content/kbase?fa=articleShow&d=26015 that
ESRI set the LDID to zero to indicate an unknown LDID. From my
reading of the OGR sourcecode, it seems that OGR uses the shapelib
default LDID o
The .cpg files we generate through ArcGIS desktop contain the string: UTF-8
Some time ago, there was a mail on this list about problems in case of
conflicting information in the .cpg file compared to the Language Driver
ID (LDID) in the header of a dBASE file, see:
http://lists.osgeo.org/piper
Okay, I will take that approach then. Thank you all for your help.
What specific value should I write into the .cpg? The string '65001'
or the string 'utf-8' or something else?
-Francis
On 5 July 2010 21:53, Peter Hopfgartner wrote:
> Hi Francis,
>
> what does not portable mean? ArcMap handles
Hi Francis,
what does not portable mean? ArcMap handles UTF-8 fine, if the correct
encoding is written into the .cpg file. Recent shapelib should handle
this fine, too. If there is any problem with a specific GIS program, a
bug report for that GIS program might be the right thing to do.
Regards,
At the bottom of this page, for one:
http://resources.arcgis.com/content/kbase?fa=articleShow&d=21106
But honestly I've found hard to find information about this. I'd be
very happy to be corrected if this is not the case!
Cheers,
Francis
On 5 July 2010 19:09, Hermann Peifer wrote:
> Francis,
