[GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] Lost in encoding problem, v.in.ogr

[Maris Nartiss]

Just for the record:
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2453
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2014-April/068160.html


2015-02-27 5:16 GMT+02:00 Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com>:
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> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Daniel Victoria <daniel.victoria at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi List,
>>
>> I'm having trouble importing a shapefile with v.in.ogr that has some
>> accented characters (like não, rodoviária).
>> The shapefile opend fine in QGIS and I can open the dbf on libreoffice,
>> setting the encoding to (windows-1252/winlatin 1).
>> I imported the shapefile and if I run v.db.select or if I open the
>> attribute data, accented characters are messed up. However, when I try to
>> query the layer, an error message (png attached) will show telling me to
>> check database settings and then gives me the reason for the failure. I can
>> then see that the queried attributes in this windows all have the accented
>> character.
>>
>> Has anyone had any luck with accented characters in v.in.ogr? I tried
>> changing the encoding option in v.in.ogr but could not get it to work.
>> I'm using grass7 from OSGeo4Win. Attached is the shapefile that I'm trying
>> to import.
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>
> Try to specify the encoding in GUI settings -> Attributes -> encoding ->
> windows-1252.
> But it probably won't help with displaying in Attribute table manager.
>
> To developers:
> I am totally confused how the attribute encoding is currently implemented.
> The ATM fails to display the characters correctly since environmental
> variable GRASS_DB_ENCODING is not set. I can't find any place where it would
> be set. The list of grass variable says that there is GRASS gisenv variable
> GRASS_DB_ENCODING. Grep shows usage of GRASS_DB_ENCODING only in gui and it
> is not set anywhere. Any idea someone?
>
> Anna
>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Daniel
>>
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