[Qgis-user] Greek characters in attribute table

[Bernd Vogelgesang]

Hi,
I downloaded some sample and there was a cpg-file (open in text editor)  
telling me UTF-8. That would be the other way round, from System to UTF-8  
then.
So best check for those cpg-files.

Cheers
Bernd


Am 05.11.2017, 20:58 Uhr, schrieb Andre Joost <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de>:

> Am 05.11.2017 um 17:12 schrieb Tilemachos Moymoyris:
>> Greetings from Greece,I would like to ask a very common question
>> about greek and attribute table. I run win10 32bit and Qgis 2.18.14.
>> When i download shapefiles from geodata.gov.gr i am not able to view
>> names in attribute table in greek. I get only questionmarks. I have
>> tried changing the encoding when opening the file and also i have
>> tried to open the dbf file and change the encoding there. I cannot
>> view neither in the dbf file the correct characters.
>>
>
> In the layers properties, you have to change the encoding from "System"  
> or "utf-8" to "Greek" or "ISO-8859-7".
>
> HTH,
> André Joost
>
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