opengeo/mapstory — Issue #54: Allow specifying character encoding during import/upload
Author: ischneider
Created: 2011-11-04 23:18:41+00:00
State: open

Some of the uploaded data contains non standard (ISO-8859-1) characters. This will silently be imported without 'errors', but the resulting data will contain real 'errors' as those non-recognized characters will be '?' or something else.

The importer should allow specifying a character encoding. In addition, it should support 'dry-run' or 'preview' mode to allow the user to verify if this has occurred correctly (since a human is required to verify).

Not sure of time to implement, but specifying the encoding is relatively quick - day or two w/ user interface. The preview mode might take longer, especially considering the transformations from shapefile into postgis.