[Qgis-user] UTF-8 no more :(

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi,

have you updated GDAL recently? There are some issues with using GDAL 1.9
and QGIS.

2012/3/23 Koos Hagg <hagg.koos at gmail.com>:
> Hi Everyone,
> Has anybody else noticed that UTF-8 is broken?
>
> most of my mapping work has been focused on Vietnam, which has a bunch of
> accents and what not.
> I have not had this problem up until today- usually importing and exporting
> as utf-8 will handle all of my characters beautifully.
>
> Today nope. A connection to a spatiallite database is fine, but for example,
> if I save a spatialite layer as a shapefile (utf-8 specified) the characters
> turn to mush.
>
> My old layers which were fine (and saved as UTF-8) before now are not
> displaying text properly.
>
> Ideas anyone?
> this is in QGIS 1.7.4-4 and 1.9.90. on Windows 7 64 bit (OSGeo4W)

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Alexander Bruy