CORRECTION: <br>It is still desirable to change the character encoding directly in the .dbf file after import. <br>Reason is that setting truetype and character encoding using d.font.freetype only affects display commands, but reading database (e.g., using db.select) is still scrambled. <br>
<br>Maybe there is an environmental variable in GRASS which can be used to change the default UTF8 encoding? But I would say that it is better to use OpenOffice to change .dbf file encoding in single cases. <br><br>Jana<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Jana Krajcovicova <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkrajc@gmail.com">jkrajc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br>That's correct Glynn, I've just tested that. The trick is as simple as to use <b>Truetype</b> font and set charset to the encoding used in the input vector map (Apparently, my GRASS was not built to use iconv() :-)<br>
<br>Anyway, GRASS is so nice, thanks to all of you :-)<br><br>Jana</div><div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div><div class="Ih2E3d">I can't comment on GDAL/OGR issues, but the display library will<br>
accept data in any encoding recognised by iconv[1] when using FreeType<br>
fonts. You just need to specify the encoding via the charset= option.<br>
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[1] Provided that GRASS was built to use iconv(); this is<br>
autodetected. Otherwise, text is treated as ISO-8859-1.<br>
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Glynn Clements <<a href="mailto:glynn@gclements.plus.com" target="_blank">glynn@gclements.plus.com</a>><br>
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