[Qgis-user] GDAL utf-8 workaround

[S. Koukoulas (lists)]

hmm.. are we talking about the same problem?
I use Fedora and gdal version 1.9.1-10 in my PC and windows xp in the
lab where I use QGIS 1.8.0 for an introductory course in GIS.

the problem is:
When I load a shapefile with greek encoding other than utf-8 (e.g.
iso8859-7 or wp1253), I can not see the greek characters properly. When
I load an iso8859-7 file, in the properties is set as utf-8 by default.
When I change this to iso8859-7, it does not accept the change (returns
back to utf-8).

As a result I have to load the file (or part of the table and use join
later) in Libreoffice, and save it as utf-8 in order to see greek in qgis.

Also, when I edit a file and write in greek, it does not save it as
greek! (no workaround for this so far!)

So I was referring to this problem, is there any solution? Is this
solved in a newer version of gdal? Would QGIS 1.8.0 work with a newer
version?

As an example  try dowloading the SHP file from
http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=16&sobi2Id=21&Itemid=
and see whether you can read the greek names (nomoi_okhe.shp)

best
sotiris

In my PC, I use :
Linux 3.5.4-1.fc17.x86_64 x86_64
System:  Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
KDE:  4.9.2




On 11/02/2012 09:03 AM, Andre Joost wrote:
> Hi Ramon,
>
> I agree with you. I fixed the utf-8 issue by inserting
> SET SHAPE_ENCODING=UTF-8
> at the beginning of the qgis.bat. No problems since then.
>
> HTH,
> André Joost
>
> Am 02.11.12 05:41, schrieb Ramon Andiñach:
>> On windows, with OSGeo packages, doing that will probably create
>> other problems.
>>
>> -ramon.
>>
>> On 02/11/2012, at 12:28, Vladimir Naumov<sendmeoffer at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Sotiris,
>>>
>>> the problem was fixed months ago. Try new GDAL 1.9.2
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Vladimir.
>>>
>>> 01.11.2012 23:30, S. Koukoulas (lists) пишет:
>>>> nice one!
>>>> I did something similar by saving Greek fields in a new table (in
>>>> Libreoffice Calc) and then used a common field to join them back to
>>>> the
>>>> attribute table. This can also be used to change from other greek
>>>> encodings to utf-8 (through Libreoffice Calc) - a workaround until the
>>>> problem is fixed...
>>>> sotiris
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 03/23/2012 04:34 PM, Koos Hagg wrote:
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> Trying the value 'utf-8' (no quotes) in a .cpg file did not work for
>>>>> me (caps or not)
>>>>>
>>>>> But i did find that i could get around the problem for now by opening
>>>>> my shapefile's .dbf with Libreoffice Calc, (which opens it fine) and
>>>>> saving the dbf (save as, same name, overwrite).
>>>>>
>>>>> So at least that's a simple way to fix that for the time being.
>>>>>
>>>>> Koos
>>>>>
>>>>>
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