[GRASS-user] Importing ESRI Shapefile might cause attribute data corruption

[Maris Nartiss]

JFYI
GRASS is also hit hard by recent GDAL/OGR ESRI Shapefile encoding
saga. Importing ESRI Shapefile with non-latin text most likely will
corrupt Your text.
Symptoms - even when setting correct encoding for wxgui in
preferences, non-latin letters are shown grabbled and doubled (two
garbage symbols instead of a single letter).
Solution - create a .cpg file and pray or downgrade GDAL/OGR on
pre-1.9.0 version (not an option for WinGRASS users).

Note - if Your data are corrupted during import with v.in.ogr, there's
no easy way how to correct it.*
* find/replace in LO Calc might do the trick for DBF file.

Have a nice day.
Maris.