artemp/mapnik — Issue #132: Null chars in dbf file cause failure in Filter expression
Author: artemp
Created: 2011-10-11 15:59:05+00:00
State: open
Labels: Shapefile_Input_Driver

Issue testcase here: http://mapnik-utils.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/sandbox/mapnik_filter_failure_test_case.zip

Issue discussion here: http://www.nabble.com/Mapnik-Filter-Expression-Failure-tt20141006.html#a20141526

Workaround is to use ogr2ogr to make a new copy of the shapefile, but it would also be great to be able to better handle this situation in the mapnik code as MapServer is able to do this.