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I'm trying to import ArcGIS shapefile to PostGIS. I get an error like this:

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My client and server encoding both of them "UTF-8"

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I get an error especially in the point type.

How can I fix it?

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I tried Latin1 and Latin3 but did not work.

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  • do you have qgis? you should try and import this file through there too see what happens – ziggy Apr 10 '17 at 19:41
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I think your issue is that your shapefile's DBF character encoding is not UTF-8. By default shp2pgsql-gui assumes the incoming encoding is UTF-8 so if there is a mismatch here the tool will fail.

You need to ensure that the DBF file character encoding (accessed through the Options menu of shp2pgsql-gui) matches that of your shapefile.

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If you don't know what the DBF encoding is and UTF-8 hasn't worked, it's worth trying LATIN-1.

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  • Hey Ali, thank you for your answer. I tried LATIN1 and LATIN3 but I'm getting the same error. – Umut Apr 10 '17 at 19:36
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    @Umut Okay, could be Windows-1252 – Ali Apr 10 '17 at 19:46
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    @Umut Also, you can avoid the guesswork if you have a .cpg file along with the standard shapefile components as this will give you information about the character encoding. – Ali Apr 10 '17 at 19:57

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