[Qgis-user] Correct data source encoding for labels

[Luis Franco Vázquez]

When you add your layer take a look at the encoding option. You are
choosing a wrong one. I think you are argentinian. Try one of this: UTF-8,
windows-1252 (ANSI), ISO-8859-1.

2016-08-24 20:44 GMT+02:00 Bernd Vogelgesang <bernd.vogelgesang at gmx.de>:

> Hi,
> do you have this issue only with labels or do you have the same issue in
> the attribute table (assuming that labels derive from atributes)?
>
> I also have frequent issues with encoding. The only thing that worked for
> me (in some cases) was to check "Ignore shapefile encoding declaration"
> under Settings/Options/Data Sources/Data source handling.
>
> If you try this, you should maybe restart QGIS and/or at least remove and
> re-add the layer in question.
>
> Cheers
> Bernd
>
> Am 24.08.2016, 20:23 Uhr, schrieb Luciano La Sala <
> lucianolasala at yahoo.com.ar>:
>
> Hello QGIS users,
>>
>> I am using QGIS 2.14.0 Essen. I have a shapefile for which I need to
>> display labels. All seems ok except that accents are displayed as a
>> question a mark inside a diamond. I understand this is a data source
>> encoding issue. Is there a practical way to solve it?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>
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