Usually, we want to plot the shapes and not care too much about the correctness of decoded .dbf file. But the current behavior: plotting fails if the default encoding does not match the one used for saving .dbf file.
I propose to add an argument to the readshapefile:
mp.readshapefile(..., encoding_errors="strict") # I guess the possible values are 'ignore', 'replace' and 'backslashreplace'
Currently, this is hardcoded to 'strict' inside the readshapefile method (i.e. default in the Reader constructor).
Usually, we want to plot the shapes and not care too much about the correctness of decoded .dbf file. But the current behavior: plotting fails if the default encoding does not match the one used for saving .dbf file.
I propose to add an argument to the readshapefile:
Currently, this is hardcoded to 'strict' inside the
readshapefilemethod (i.e. default in theReaderconstructor).I could try to submit a PR at some point.