[Qgis-user] RE: utf-8 no more :(

[Alexander Bruy]

Try to replace 65001 with utf-8. Seems on some platforms
65001 don't work as expected

2012/3/23 Koos Hagg <hagg.koos at gmail.com>:
> Well, I have a liking to always getting the nightly builds... :)
>
> I found this: http://ssrebelious.blogspot.com/2012/03/qgis-and-gdal19-encoding-issue.html
>
>  a blog post which talks about this workaround:
>   ""The workaround I'm currently using is creating additional
> .cpg-file, that contains the ID of the encoding used. For example if
> encoding is Windows-1251, .cpg-file contains the following record:
> "1251" (without quotes). When .cpg-file is present, GDAL>=1.9 + QGIS
> works just fine.""
>
> I tried it (with the utf encoding ID- 65001) but it didn't work for
> me. I basically made a text file in notepad++ and named it the same as
> my shapefile, with .cpg as the suffix. or is there more to it than
> that?

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Alexander Bruy