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  • October 19, 2015
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Hi,

 

 

I have a shapefile and I am writing the output according to the according to the attributr name of the input shapefile. The input shapefile has korean language. Now, if I export the according to the attribute, language is not getting exported correctly by FME. How can we resolve this issue !!

Best answer by lenaatsafe

Hi @dewan

 

there might be two possible causes of this problem:

 

  • maybe the source data is not in UTF-8 and when you set the Shape Reader Character Encoding to UTF-8 the Reader interprets the data incorrectly
please inspect your your source data with Data Inspector, set the Shape Reader Characters Encoding to UTF-8 and confirm that the data does look OK;

 

if the data looks garbled please try to set the Reader Character encoding to <nothing> to let the Reader get the encoding information from the data (if available);

 

AND/OR

 

  • maybe your Shape Writer has an incorrect Character Encoding setting
by default, the Shape Writer Character Encoding is set to SYSTEM which means system locale default encoding - this will work if your system locale is set to Korean(Korea);

 

you might want to set the Writer Character Encoding to <nothing> to let the Writer preserve the encoding as is.

 

If these steps do not help please follow up with support@safe.com as @daleatsafe suggested above.

 

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david_r
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  • david_rCelebrity
  • October 19, 2015
Hi

 

 

Which character encoding(s) did you specify when creating the reader and the writer?

 

 

David

 

 
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  • dewan
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  • October 19, 2015
Hi David.

 

No. It was default encoding. Yet, I tried using utf-8 and many others, but none of them worked. !!
david_r
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  • david_rCelebrity
  • October 19, 2015
I think the most important thing is to verify that the encoding is set exactly the same way on both the reader and the writer.

 

 

UTF-8 would normally be a good bet, although I must admit I do not know anything about the korean character sets.

 

 

David

 

 
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  • dewan
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  • October 19, 2015
I tried using utf-8 in both reader and writer, but it didn't work properly. Its not particulary about Korean d/s, I have many European d/s as well which have different languages.

 

Are there any other methods to solve the issue.
fmelizard
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  • October 31, 2015
@dewan -- please do follow up with support@safe.com -- this should work. We'll need the workspace and the data and ideally also your log file.
mark2atsafe
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  • November 2, 2015

What locale is the computer set up as? If the source is a Korean encoding, then I doubt telling FME it is UTF8 would help, nor would using the default encoding if you're not on a Korean system.

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  • lenaatsafe
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  • November 2, 2015
Hi @dewan

 

there might be two possible causes of this problem:

 

  • maybe the source data is not in UTF-8 and when you set the Shape Reader Character Encoding to UTF-8 the Reader interprets the data incorrectly
please inspect your your source data with Data Inspector, set the Shape Reader Characters Encoding to UTF-8 and confirm that the data does look OK;

 

if the data looks garbled please try to set the Reader Character encoding to <nothing> to let the Reader get the encoding information from the data (if available);

 

AND/OR

 

  • maybe your Shape Writer has an incorrect Character Encoding setting
by default, the Shape Writer Character Encoding is set to SYSTEM which means system locale default encoding - this will work if your system locale is set to Korean(Korea);

 

you might want to set the Writer Character Encoding to <nothing> to let the Writer preserve the encoding as is.

 

If these steps do not help please follow up with support@safe.com as @daleatsafe suggested above.

 

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