[GRASS-user] Multiple character enconding

[Jarekj]

Markus Neteler pisze:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Manuel Sangiao <masanlo1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi grasslist,
>>
>> I have a MIF/MID file with city names of europa. I have imported this one
>> into GRASS
>>     
>
> I suppose you used v.in.ogr?
>
>   
>> and I've worked with the layer in sqlite. 
Did you see characters in GRASS properly (i.e with national characters?
what was the encoding of Mapinfo files?. As I remeber Mapinfo files code 
chars in natiolnal standards (for example for polish it  is often 
windows 1250)
mid is comma separated ascii file try tu check his encoding - if it is 
UTF-8 try to use postgreSQL instead SQLIte


>> Then I have exported
>> the layer to shp and then I notice that the german, polish and other special
>> characters have disappeared.
>>     
>
> I suppose you used v.out.ogr?
>
>   
>> I'm not sure, but probably in the source data (the MIF/MID file) the city
>> names are encoded with the correspondent language code.
>>
>> Have someone any idea, how can I resolve this problem?
>>     
>
> I think that this might be an OGR problem (found for example
> http://www.nabble.com/Encoding-in-ogr2ogr-td10168817.html#a10168817
> ).
>
> Could you try to convert it via ogr2ogr to see if the accented characters
> survive? If yes, it's a GRASS problem, then we need to check that. If
> not, please report to the GDAL mailing list then.
>
> Markus
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Hi
It is