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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I have a bunch of MS Excel .xls files in the old format (hundreds of files), not the new .xlsx format.</p>
<p>The content of the .xls files seems to be UTF-8 encoded, but QGIS loads them with some LATIN-x encoding - all of the non-ASCII-characters look garbled.</p>
<p>I want to process these files with Processing and merge them into one file.</p>
<p>Is there any way how I can load these files with the correct UTF-8 encoding? I know, there is an algorithm to set the correct encoding of a layer in processing, but unfortunately this doesn't work with multi-layer input, only with single layer input.</p>
<p>Is there some OGR trick (environment variable or opening option) to load the files with correct encoding?</p>
<p>Thanks if you have any hint,</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
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