[Qgis-user] Editing dbf attributes via Python Console

[Magnus Homann]

stefaan dondeyne skrev:

> (1) by the sheer fact of adding a colum to the table say "veg_general" - 
> in the original table all records get affected with text using special 
> characters so e.g. in the field "vegetation" something which was
>  
> - "/Savana arbórea/" is transformed into "/Savana arbórea/" or
> "/Plantação florestal/" into "/Plantação florestal/"
>  
> prety annoying if you want to use that for your legend...

What character encoding was originally used for the file? Spunds like a problem with
the table getting saved using another character encoding.

Magnus