Re: [pmapper-users] Manual and UTF-8 mapfile

[Armin B. <arm...@gm...>]

If the map file is already in Unicode then this should be 0. If it is 
eg. in Latin1 then it should normally be 1. I usually got parsing errors 
when having the map file in Unicode, but for others it seems to work.

armin

Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
>>From this sentence and from the on-line manual seems that when you have a 
> mapfile in UTF8 (that is non-ASCII) you must set map2unicode to 1.
> 
> Experimenting, I found that to make it display correctly, this parameter must 
> be set to 0.
> 
> ; if map file contains non-ASCII characters
> ; eg for layer DESCRIPTION or CLASS names, set value to 1
> ;----------------------------------------------------------
> map2unicode = 0
> 
> Is manual right AND my is a strange setup OR is the manual wrong OR I have 
> misunderstood everything?
> 
> Thanks.