[Qgis-user] shapefile .cpg ignored

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Am 19.09.2014 16:25, schrieb Andre Joost:

>> The "auto detect" option is hidden in Settings, Options, Data Sources,
>> [ ] Ignore shapefile encoding declaration
>> which is set by default, meaning auto detect is disabled. Weird.
> 
> When this feature was introduced in GDAL/OGR some time ago, we got a lot 
> of complaints because OGR and QGIS both tried to do the encoding.

I assume this doesn't happen any more (at least I didn't notice).

> So it 
> was decided to let QGIS do the job (as it was before),

Then Qgis itself has to respect the encoding declaration (which I think
always exists if the shapefile was created with current Qgis). I
consider this option as a bug.

Thanks André for your comment.
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