[GRASS-user] Character encoding problem

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Jana Krajcovicova <jkrajc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes!!!
> Sorry for bothering you with the last question.
> I used d.font.freetype pointing at a .ttf font in /usr/share/fonts/... and
> now it displays all characters perfectly.
...
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:09 PM, JanaKr <jkrajc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It was an interesting idea with open office (I didn't know I can open dbf
>> file there). I used it to convert the dbf encoding to UTF-8.

Excellent. So the entire trick is to change the DBF file to UTF-8
and to use a Truetype font. If not right, please correct me.

Perhaps worth a FAQ in the Wiki...:
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Faq
?

Markus