[ka-Map-users] International character support for, groupnames

[Cheung Alan Kwok Lun]

Hi Roman,

I'm assuming that the data you want to show are in shapefiles and the 
data manipulation tool you use is ArcGIS :-P , this might help:

http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.techArticles.articleShow&d=21106

Even if your operating system is in the native language, ArcGIS would 
not recognize the localized character set by default... I learnt it the 
hard way :(

Thanks!

Kind Regards,

Cheung, Alan Kwok Lun,
Geo-graphics Assistant,
Geo-graphics Unit,
School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science,
University of Auckland

10 Symonds Street, Auckland,
New Zealand
ache051 at ec.auckland.ac.nz
http://www.sges.auckland.ac.nz
> Thanks pb.
>
> No, that one doesn't help me :-(
>
> In my opinion, the problem is coming from Ka-Map and not Mapserver. My
> applications using standard click & load techniques work all fine. I don't face
> any problems with international characters. It's only Ka-Map that gives me
> problems.
>
> Apparently, the problem is also not related to the charset used. I changed from
> ISO-8859-1 to utf-8, but this didn't help too.
>
> Thanks again,
> Roman
>
>
> Quoting Pēteris Brūns <peteris.bruns at gmail.com>:
>
>   
>> > I'm not sure that it helps but: 
>> > http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/wms_server/#web-object-metadata
>> >  Try to use in web objects tag wms_encoding.
>> > 
>> > pb
>> > 
>> > kamap at gismap.ch wrote:
>>     
>>> > > Hi list
>>> > >
>>> > > I use Ka-Map to design a prototype. It's in German. I use charset
>>>       
>> > ISO-8859-1. I
>>     
>>> > > face a problem with special german characters used in groupnames. The
>>> > > consequence is, that the groupname in the legend is shown with a '?'
>>>       
>> > instead of
>>     
>>> > > the special character. Also the layer is not shown in the mapwindow. If I
>>>       
>> > remove
>>     
>>> > > the special characters in group names, everything works just fine. I also
>>> > > checked CVS, but the problem remains the same.
>>> > >
>>> > > I found some info in the wiki. The workaround is to define a new metadata
>>>       
>> > entry.
>>     
>>> > > I tried that one too, but this workaround does not work again.
>>> > >
>>> > > What can I do to solve my problem?
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks in advance,
>>> > > Roman
>>> > >
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>>> > >
>>> > >   
>>>       
>> > 
>> > 
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