[GRASS-user] Character encoding problem

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:53 AM, JanaKr <jkrajc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have imported a shape file of Central Europe with central european
> characters (using v.in.ogr). Shape file had been output by arc info GIS
> running on windows OS. When I display the imported file in GRASS, the CE
> characters are missing. Is there a way to solve the problem and display the
> missing characters correctly?

AFAIK it is related to the (limited) support in OGR: see
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc5_unicode
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc23_ogr_unicode
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/882

Best is to express interest by posting to the GDAL list:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev/

> Or, at least, "translate" them to ASCII, so
> that I get the names without diacritics?

You can possibly use OpenOffice to change the encoding of
the DBF file.

Markus