Hello,

I'm trying to create a shapefile with non ascii character ('é', 'à' etc...).
When I pass only ascii characters to the record() method, everything is fine, but since when I pass non ascii, the data are totaly mixed (data not coresponding to the columns, and some data are reported to other columns)

Here in the screen shot, the columns "nom_valide" should be only "string" and the numbers at the beginning of the column should be in the "cd_ref" column...

I tought I had to encode myself my data, but I saw in the code, that it's already done...

def b(v):
    if PYTHON3:
        if isinstance(v, str):
            # For python 3 encode str to bytes.
            return v.encode('utf-8')
        elif isinstance(v, bytes):
            # Already bytes.
            return v
        else:
            # Error.
            raise Exception('Unknown input type')
    else:
        # For python 2 assume str passed in and return str.
        return v

When I pass already encoded data (bytes in utf-8), everything works, but all the data columns are prefixed with a "u"... because its encoded twice...

I also saw in the doc that we can pass the encoding to the Writter class, but I think the 1.2.12 version I doesn't have this feature yet.

I'm using pyshp 1.2.12, python 3, my data come from sqlalchemy and are already in utf8

Any help ?

Thanks a lot