id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component resolution keywords cc 689 NaturalEarth Character Encodings darkblueb darkblueb "the NaturalEarth dataset is supplied as .shp files in Windows 1252 encoding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 a close ISO standard is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1 It is desirable to simply hold all tables in postgres as Unicode UTF-8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 Currently, the custom version of the NaturalEarth data set we use does a pretty good job of passing through character encodings.. but on inspection of Vietnamese and Slovenian Admin1 (state) names, there are some problem characters.. How well these characters are represented in other environments, from the .shp files, remains to be seen. " defect closed normal OSGeoLive10.0 OSGeoLive worksforme natural earth, upstream live-demo@… warmerdam