Limited UTF-8 support

YigalMuntner — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 04:50:31 GMT

1. When exporting to shapefile - Hebrew letters become gibberish.
2. Searching Hebrew tags return no results.

Yigal

Re: Limited UTF-8 support

Anonymous User — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:33:30 GMT

Yigal,

Thank you for the feedback, we will log a bug for this. If possible, please post the data you are using so we can accurately address your issue.

Thank you,
Andrew

Re: Limited UTF-8 support

SimonLiu — Fri, 02 May 2014 20:31:17 GMT

I'd like to second this.

For example, the service below has Chinese characters in the attribute fields:

http://simon.techresearch.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/9f0d2f8db081426eb396837a1bc77f68_1

Downloading as CSV is fine.

Downloading as a shapefile corrupts the text. However, from memory, the DBF format used by shapefiles to store attribute data has always had spotty support for non-ASCII characters, so there may not be much that can be done here.

Downloading as GeoJSON and viewing in a text editor seems to work OK, but I've noticed that when I click http://simon.techresearch.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/9f0d2f8db081426eb396837a1bc77f68_1.geojson in my web browser, the Chinese characters are garbled if my browser's default encoding isn't set to UTF-8 (this will be the case for a lot of users in English-speaking countries). This can easily be fixed by getting the server to state the encoding in the HTTP response header (something like Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 rather than the ambiguous Content-Type: text/plain it sends at the moment)

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