Merge pull request #10291 from rouault/doc_mapinfo_encoding

Doc: MapInfo: document supported encodings

doc/source/drivers/vector/mapinfo_encodings.csv

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+"ENCODING value","MapInfo charset",description
+""""" (empty string)",Neutral,"No character conversions performed."
+"ISO-8859-1","ISO8859_1","ISO 8859-1 (UNIX)"
+"ISO-8859-2","ISO8859_2","ISO 8859-2 (UNIX)"
+"ISO-8859-3","ISO8859_3","ISO 8859-3 (UNIX)"
+"ISO-8859-4","ISO8859_4","ISO 8859-4 (UNIX)"
+"ISO-8859-5","ISO8859_5","ISO 8859-5 (UNIX)"
+"ISO-8859-6","ISO8859_6","ISO 8859-6 (UNIX)"
+"ISO-8859-7","ISO8859_7","ISO 8859-7 (UNIX)"
+"ISO-8859-8","ISO8859_8","ISO 8859-8 (UNIX)"
+"ISO-8859-9","ISO8859_9","ISO 8859-9 (UNIX)"
+"EUC-JP","PackedEUCJapaese","UNIX, standard Japanese implementation."
+"CP1252","WindowsLatin1",""
+"CP1250","WindowsLatin2",""
+"CP1256","WindowsArabic",""
+"CP1251","WindowsCyrillic",""
+"CP1257","WindowsBalticRim",""
+"CP1253","WindowsGreek",""
+"CP1255","WindowsHebrew",""
+"CP1254","WindowsTurkish","Windows Eastern Europe"
+"CP950","WindowsTradChinese","Windows Traditional Chinese"
+"CP936","WindowsSimpChinese","Windows Simplified Chinese"
+"CP932","WindowsJapanese",""
+"CP949","WindowsKorean",""
+"CP437","CodePage437","DOS Code Page 437 = IBM Extended ASCII"
+"CP850","CodePage850","DOS Code Page 850 = Multilingual"
+"CP852","CodePage852","DOS Code Page 852 = Eastern Europe"
+"CP855","CodePage855","DOS Code Page 855 = Cyrillic"
+"CP857","CodePage857",""
+"CP860","CodePage860","DOS Code Page 860 = Portuguese"
+"CP861","CodePage861","DOS Code Page 861 = Icelandic"
+"CP863","CodePage863","DOS Code Page 863 = French Canadian"
+"CP864","CodePage864","DOS Code Page 864 = Arabic"
+"CP865","CodePage865","DOS Code Page 865 = Nordic"
+"CP869","CodePage869","DOS Code Page 869 = Modern Greek"
+"(no iconv match)","LICS","Lotus worksheet release 1,2 character set"
+"(no iconv match)","LMBCS","Lotus worksheet release 3,4 character set"

doc/source/drivers/vector/mitab.rst

@@ -150,9 +150,15 @@ The following layer creation options are supported:
       Define the encoding for field
       names and field values. The encoding name is specified in the format
       supported by :cpp:func:`CPLRecode` (e.g. ISO-8859-1, CP1251, CP1252 ...) and
-      internally converted to MapInfo charsets names. Default value is ''
+      internally converted to MapInfo charsets names. Default value is '' (empty string)
       that equals to 'Neutral' MapInfo charset.
 
+      Currently supported values for the encoding name are:
+
+      .. csv-table:: MapInfo encodings
+        :file: mapinfo_encodings.csv
+        :header-rows: 1
+
 -  .. lco:: DESCRIPTION
       :since: 3.1.0
 

ogr/ogrsf_frmts/mitab/mitab_imapinfofile.cpp

@@ -591,6 +591,7 @@ const char *IMapInfoFile::GetCharset() const
 
 // Table is adopted from
 // http://www.i-signum.com/Formation/download/MB_ReferenceGuide.pdf pp. 127-128
+// NOTE: if modifying this table, please keep doc/source/drivers/vector/mapinfo_encodings.csv in sync
 static const char *const apszCharsets[][2] = {
     {"Neutral", ""},                 // No character conversions performed.
     {"ISO8859_1", "ISO-8859-1"},     // ISO 8859-1 (UNIX)