#POSTGIS IRC Log - 2008-06-13

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07:37:56 rwhittlesey: I'm having some trouble with the shp2pgsql command
07:38:19 rwhittlesey: I've used shp2pgsql to create a large sql file ( 2+ gigs ) and now am trying to load it into the db
07:38:49 rwhittlesey: however, I'm getting errors that say "ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xed6f20"
07:38:58 rwhittlesey: I know I need to use iconv to convert the sql
07:39:00 rwhittlesey: sql file*
07:39:11 rwhittlesey: but how do I find what encoding it's starting as?
09:06:12 rwhittlesey: got it figured out
09:06:30 rwhittlesey: turns out, the shp file had an xml file too, and in the metadata it told me
09:06:32 rwhittlesey: thanks for your time! :D
09:09:44 ue: you are welcome
13:01:16 springmeyer: http://postgis.refractions.net/ is down eh?
13:01:56 rwhittlesey: it appears to be down for me too