Support Unicode for ArcSDE 9.2 and above

[hobu]

ArcSDE 9.2 adds support for unicode data attributes. We can use msGetEncodedString to convert these UTF-16 data into something MapServer can render.

[hobu]

r6555 completes this work. It was started in r5935, but did not work or do anything.

[hpbrantley]

lables only first character of nvarchar2 field

[hpbrantley]

Rendering labels with svn from 8/15/2007, unicode lables only draws first character.

Mapfile fragment

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LAYER

NAME 'ROADNAMES' METADATA

"wms_title" "roadnames"

END CONNECTIONTYPE SDE CONNECTION '127.0.0.1,port:5151,sde,user,password' DATA 'SDE.CENTERLINES,SHAPE,SDE.DEFAULT' PROCESSING "CLOSE_CONNECTION=DEFER" DUMP TRUE PROJECTION

"init=epsg:2274"

END TYPE ANNOTATION STATUS ON LABELITEM 'STREET_NAME' CLASS

STYLE

COLOR 212 207 199

END LABEL

ANGLE FOLLOW MINDISTANCE 800 FONT sans TYPE TRUETYPE SIZE 6 BUFFER 15 COLOR 0 0 0 BACKGROUNDCOLOR -1 -1 -1 OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255 #FORCE TRUE

END

END

END

[hobu]

r6604 and r6602 add the proper support to be able to use do this