topic Unicode/Codepage problem in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/unicode-codepage-problem/m-p/623531#M35277 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Guys,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a Codepage issue, and for now I am a bit stumpped</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My original source data contains multiple country data delivered in SHP (UTF-8). The data is then merged into a </SPAN><STRONG>File GeoDB</STRONG><SPAN> as the data is too large for the 2gb SHP/DBF limit. Previously I was able to use the *.CPG method with a smaller SHP dataset to correctly display the data that contains caracters that matches ANSI (ê, ë, ô, etc.). Now that the data is in a File GeoDB I am not able to use this method.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Strangely enough, I changed the codepage of the SHP-UTF8 data to SHP-ANSI of a single file using a FME process, then imported the data into a File GeoDB and the data then displayed correctly in ArcMap.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now transforming all the source SHP-UTF8 data to SHP-ANSI is quite a timely process (many files that makes up a big dataset), so my question is if it is possible to set the CodePage of the data in a File GeoDB so that the source merged dataset would display correct?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The UTF8 based data looks like this : Ko�?¶perasie Street</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>where it should look like (ANSI): Koöperasie Street</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Pieter</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>PS. This is a duplicate post from </SPAN><A href="http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/17284-Unicode-problems!!!">Unicode-problems!!!</A><SPAN>&nbsp; as I think it is better suited for this forum.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:32:34 GMT PieterCoetzer 2012-01-24T17:32:34Z Unicode/Codepage problem https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/unicode-codepage-problem/m-p/623531#M35277 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Guys,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a Codepage issue, and for now I am a bit stumpped</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My original source data contains multiple country data delivered in SHP (UTF-8). The data is then merged into a </SPAN><STRONG>File GeoDB</STRONG><SPAN> as the data is too large for the 2gb SHP/DBF limit. Previously I was able to use the *.CPG method with a smaller SHP dataset to correctly display the data that contains caracters that matches ANSI (ê, ë, ô, etc.). Now that the data is in a File GeoDB I am not able to use this method.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Strangely enough, I changed the codepage of the SHP-UTF8 data to SHP-ANSI of a single file using a FME process, then imported the data into a File GeoDB and the data then displayed correctly in ArcMap.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now transforming all the source SHP-UTF8 data to SHP-ANSI is quite a timely process (many files that makes up a big dataset), so my question is if it is possible to set the CodePage of the data in a File GeoDB so that the source merged dataset would display correct?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The UTF8 based data looks like this : Ko�?¶perasie Street</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>where it should look like (ANSI): Koöperasie Street</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Pieter</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>PS. This is a duplicate post from </SPAN><A href="http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/17284-Unicode-problems!!!">Unicode-problems!!!</A><SPAN>&nbsp; as I think it is better suited for this forum.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:32:34 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/unicode-codepage-problem/m-p/623531#M35277 PieterCoetzer 2012-01-24T17:32:34Z