default dbflib encoding (Re: WIP-pyshapelib-Unicode issues)

[Bram de Greve]

Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 January 2008 18:52, Bram de Greve wrote:
>   
>> so things
>> pretty much went down to the default Python encoding, which is ... ASCII?
>>     
>
> I think we should assume something that a majority of users used,
> like latin1 which is a superset of ascii.
>
>
>   
Either latin1 (cp819) or cp1252 (ansi western europe) ...

I believe ESRI tends more towards the latter, but as Thuban is more
Linux oriented, it might be that the former is a better choice (in terms
of what a majority of Thuban users used).

Bram
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