pyshapelib branch

[Didrik Pinte]

Le vendredi 16 mars 2007 à 11:17 +0100, Bernhard Reiter a écrit :
> On Thursday 15 March 2007 23:45, Bram de Greve wrote:
> > I guess where getting close to bumping up the version, merging back with
> > the main branch (after testing of course ;), and doing a seperate release
> > of pyshapelib.  Unless we still want to do something about the internal
> > Unicode support (currently it's still ASCII only, dbf specs don't really
> > support Unicode, see other thread).  And I also need to restore the "legal"
> > headers
> 
> Wow, this all sounds good!
> About the ascii support, I must admitt that I so far have not fully understood 
> all involved issues. We should at least have a document explaining our 
> current knowledge and choices.
> 
> For input site dbf we should certainly accept more (always latin1)
> then for writing it (which should be conservative).
> We could also have a look upon how other shapelib aware products like the ones 
> from ESRI handle internationalisation.

To add some information about this, we could just have a look at the
report I made some time ago :

http://wald.intevation.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=118&group_id=6&atid=105

  - update shapelib to support the DBF encoding (see byte 29
of the dbf header (http://www.clicketyclick.dk/databases/xbase/fo
rmat/dbf.html#DBF_NOTE_5_TARGET))
This seems to be more and more used by current gis software (ArcGIS
since 8.2).
   - update pyshapelib so that it convert the output of shapelib
to the locale encoding.

I guess this could probably be an improvement, no ?

Didrik
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