From e075ccbd022bd44fdb31bdf2c9d563383c96cc7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tamas Szekeres <szekerest@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 23:07:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix Character type handling in WMS dimension filters (#5374)

---
 mapogcfilter.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mapogcfilter.c b/mapogcfilter.c
index 7da559a15e..f4a6dfef9a 100644
--- a/mapogcfilter.c
+++ b/mapogcfilter.c
@@ -164,7 +164,8 @@ char *FLTGetExpressionForValuesRanges(layerObj *lp, const char *item, const char
       if (paszElements && numelements > 0) {
         if (forcecharcter)
           bIscharacter = MS_TRUE;
-        bIscharacter= !FLTIsNumeric(paszElements[0]);
+        else
+          bIscharacter= !FLTIsNumeric(paszElements[0]);
 
         pszTmpExpression = msStringConcatenate(pszTmpExpression, "(");
         for (i=0; i<numelements; i++) {