<div dir="ltr">Hello!<div><br></div><div>You should use sql (postgis or spatiallite) to join table to geometry (much easier and clear). </div><div>In shapefile you cannot bypass 10 (sometimes 6) charachter limit of field name and I think strongly recommended to use ascii charachter encoding.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Balázs</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-05-22 8:17 GMT+02:00 Jaco Engelbrecht <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jaco@bolandkelder.co.za" target="_blank">Jaco@bolandkelder.co.za</a>></span>:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is it possible to keep headers (and how?) when joining a table to a shapefile in QGIS? When I do a table join QGIS changes all my headers – kind of annoying to rename them all manually after the join.<u></u><u></u></p>

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