[GRASS-user] Character encoding problem

Jana Krajcovicova jkrajc at gmail.com
Wed Jan 21 03:22:17 EST 2009


That's correct Glynn, I've just tested that. The trick is as simple as to
use *Truetype* font and set charset to the encoding used in the input vector
map (Apparently, my GRASS was not built to use iconv() :-)

Anyway, GRASS is so nice, thanks to all of you :-)

Jana



>
> I can't comment on GDAL/OGR issues, but the display library will
> accept data in any encoding recognised by iconv[1] when using FreeType
> fonts. You just need to specify the encoding via the charset= option.
>
> [1] Provided that GRASS was built to use iconv(); this is
> autodetected. Otherwise, text is treated as ISO-8859-1.
>
> --
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
>
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