[Qgis-user] Encoding accents on the web

[chris hermansen]

Robert and list,

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 1:49 PM Robert Sweeny <rsweeny at mun.ca> wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Your suggestion makes sense. The opening line of the index.html code
> established UTF-8 as the code and which is now the same as the code for the
> Q-GIS layer. And yet, the problem persists. To make matters more
> complicated, the map has all the accents when opened from by computer, but
> looses them once uploaded.
>

This article by Bentley indicates that their software (and who knows, maybe
other software) expects shapefile characters to be encoded as ISO8859-1.
They recommend resaving the layer with a changed encoding.

You could try this.

https://communities.bentley.com/products/hydraulics___hydrology/w/hydraulics_and_hydrology__wiki/37273/characters-in-a-shapefile-do-not-appear-correctly-in-the-modelbuilder-preview

There's also this "encoding fixer plugin"

https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/shapefile_encoding_fixer/

Here are some other people struggling with the same problem

https://www.reddit.com/r/QGIS/comments/y15m2a/problem_with_german_characters_in_an_attribute/

Maybe some of this will help.

-- 
Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com

C'est ma façon de parler.
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