[Geoserver-users] Still the problem about chinese label

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1

Hello everyone,
our team is working with the help of geoserver v1.4, but we are also in trouble about chinese labels.

we create SHP files and DBF files, some data are chinese characters in DBF files. When we label graphical elements in chinese by using DBF files, we also find some terrible letters, and can not show chinese characters correctly.

So, would someone please help us solve this problem? thanks a lot!!

Best regards,
Mess

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2

Chinese characters will not work in DBF files. There is a hard coding
there that assumes a western char set. This is only the shapefile
reader though. If you put your data in to PostGIS, or Oracle, or
others, than it will read properly.

If you'd like to fix the shapefile issue I can point you at how to do
it. Or I can find someone to contract it for you. All you basically
have to do is add a parameter to the datastore factory that lets a user
specify a charset for the dbf file.

best regards,

Chris

Mess Cornell wrote:

Hello everyone,
our team is working with the help of geoserver v1.4, but we are also in trouble about chinese labels.

we create SHP files and DBF files, some data are chinese characters in DBF files. When we label graphical elements in chinese by using DBF files, we also find some terrible letters, and can not show chinese characters correctly.

So, would someone please help us solve this problem? thanks a lot!!

Best regards,
Mess

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Drea Chris
I have changed the charset's canonical name from "ISO-8859-1" to "UTF-8" in
DbaseFileReader.java file.
DbaseFileReader can read Chinese text from dbf files now, but GeoServer
can't render chinese text yet.
How can I solve it? Could you point me a way?

Best regards,
Iso.

Chris Holmes wrote:

Chinese characters will not work in DBF files. There is a hard coding
there that assumes a western char set. This is only the shapefile
reader though. If you put your data in to PostGIS, or Oracle, or
others, than it will read properly.

If you'd like to fix the shapefile issue I can point you at how to do
it. Or I can find someone to contract it for you. All you basically
have to do is add a parameter to the datastore factory that lets a user
specify a charset for the dbf file.

best regards,

Chris

Mess Cornell wrote:

Hello everyone,
our team is working with the help of geoserver v1.4, but we are also in
trouble about chinese labels.

we create SHP files and DBF files, some data are chinese characters in
DBF files. When we label graphical elements in chinese by using DBF
files, we also find some terrible letters, and can not show chinese
characters correctly.

So, would someone please help us solve this problem? thanks a lot!!

Best regards,
Mess

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What exactly do you mean by cant render? Do you mean in the user interface? Outputting of gml?

Thanks,

-Justin

Iso Na wrote:

Drea Chris
I have changed the charset's canonical name from "ISO-8859-1" to "UTF-8" in
DbaseFileReader.java file. DbaseFileReader can read Chinese text from dbf files now, but GeoServer
can't render chinese text yet.
How can I solve it? Could you point me a way?

Best regards,
Iso.

Chris Holmes wrote:

Chinese characters will not work in DBF files. There is a hard coding
there that assumes a western char set. This is only the shapefile
reader though. If you put your data in to PostGIS, or Oracle, or
others, than it will read properly.

If you'd like to fix the shapefile issue I can point you at how to do
it. Or I can find someone to contract it for you. All you basically
have to do is add a parameter to the datastore factory that lets a user
specify a charset for the dbf file.

best regards,

Chris

Mess Cornell wrote:

Hello everyone,
our team is working with the help of geoserver v1.4, but we are also in
trouble about chinese labels.

we create SHP files and DBF files, some data are chinese characters in
DBF files. When we label graphical elements in chinese by using DBF
files, we also find some terrible letters, and can not show chinese
characters correctly.

So, would someone please help us solve this problem? thanks a lot!!

Best regards,
Mess

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Sorry, just read the rest of the thread, you mean rendering labels :). Interesting... will have to look into how the render handles labels in extended character sets.

Justin Deoliveira wrote:

What exactly do you mean by cant render? Do you mean in the user interface? Outputting of gml?

Thanks,

-Justin

Iso Na wrote:

Drea Chris
I have changed the charset's canonical name from "ISO-8859-1" to "UTF-8" in
DbaseFileReader.java file. DbaseFileReader can read Chinese text from dbf files now, but GeoServer
can't render chinese text yet.
How can I solve it? Could you point me a way?

Best regards,
Iso.

Chris Holmes wrote:

Chinese characters will not work in DBF files. There is a hard coding
there that assumes a western char set. This is only the shapefile
reader though. If you put your data in to PostGIS, or Oracle, or
others, than it will read properly.

If you'd like to fix the shapefile issue I can point you at how to do
it. Or I can find someone to contract it for you. All you basically
have to do is add a parameter to the datastore factory that lets a user
specify a charset for the dbf file.

best regards,

Chris

Mess Cornell wrote:

Hello everyone,
our team is working with the help of geoserver v1.4, but we are also in
trouble about chinese labels.

we create SHP files and DBF files, some data are chinese characters in
DBF files. When we label graphical elements in chinese by using DBF
files, we also find some terrible letters, and can not show chinese
characters correctly.

So, would someone please help us solve this problem? thanks a lot!!

Best regards,
Mess

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Hrm. I had thought that the only point of breakdown was the shapefile.

Akira, did you and your team get Japanese labels in the WMS maps working? (apologies for emailing you directly, I remember you passed my last question on to someone else, but I can't recall their email address). Was there anything special that needed to be done?

Iso, do you get errors? Or just nothing rendering? What is the problem?

thanks,

Chris

Iso Na wrote:

Drea Chris
I have changed the charset's canonical name from "ISO-8859-1" to "UTF-8" in
DbaseFileReader.java file. DbaseFileReader can read Chinese text from dbf files now, but GeoServer
can't render chinese text yet.
How can I solve it? Could you point me a way?

Best regards,
Iso.

Chris Holmes wrote:

Chinese characters will not work in DBF files. There is a hard coding
there that assumes a western char set. This is only the shapefile
reader though. If you put your data in to PostGIS, or Oracle, or
others, than it will read properly.

If you'd like to fix the shapefile issue I can point you at how to do
it. Or I can find someone to contract it for you. All you basically
have to do is add a parameter to the datastore factory that lets a user
specify a charset for the dbf file.

best regards,

Chris

Mess Cornell wrote:

Hello everyone,
our team is working with the help of geoserver v1.4, but we are also in
trouble about chinese labels.

we create SHP files and DBF files, some data are chinese characters in
DBF files. When we label graphical elements in chinese by using DBF
files, we also find some terrible letters, and can not show chinese
characters correctly.

So, would someone please help us solve this problem? thanks a lot!!

Best regards,
Mess

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