[Qgis-user] Re: Join Attributes - no Shapefile createt (QGIS 1.4)

[Carson Farmer]

Excellent! I've changed how Join Attributes works a bit (in trunk), so
hopefully problems like this will be less frequent in the future. If
you have a chance, I'd appreciate a few tests to make sure that what
was working before is *still* working :-)

Cheers,

Carson

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Claas Leiner
<claas.leiner at eschenlaub.de> wrote:
> Thanks for answers,
>
> when I openend the termine.dbf with OpenOffice.org, delete the dbf-infos
> in the column-heads, save the file as *.odt and then save the file as
> *.dbf (utf8), I can join the termine.dbf. The encoding was the problem,
> I think.
>
> Claas
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> Bernd Vogelgesang schrieb:
>>> Tested with attached shapefile and dbf file, however, I suspect it has
>>> something to do with the encoding of your shapefile (how was it
>>> created?), because while this file does not work, other shapefiles
>>> (using for example UTF-8) work fine, including other shapefiles joined
>>> with your dbf file.
>>> Can you provide any further details?
>>> Carson
>>
>> Hi Claas and the others,
>> this shapefile was created by me (nice surprise to find it as an issue
>> here ;) )
>> I digitized it from a WMS-Layer with QGIS 1.4 OSGEO4W-Installation on XP
>> in UTF-8 with the first 3 table columns.
>> The other data columns were added in OpenOffice Calc and several
>> corrections of the dbf were made in Calc as well. Can this be the reason?
>> Did do this more often and haven't had problems before.
>> Is there sth particular stored within the shape file itself about the
>> database structure that is now leading to the malfunction? (No idea
>> about the inner anatomy of shapes)
>>
>> If this is not the case, could it be then some kind of data corruption
>> caused by compressing for sending by email? (just a wild guess)
>>
>> Bernd
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