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

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2013/2/15 Maris Nartiss <maris.gis at gmail.com>:
> 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.

take a look on new parameter 'encoding' in `v.in.ogr` [1]. This could help.

...
v.in.ogr dsn=/home/user/shape_data/test_shape.shp output=grass_map
encoding=cp1250
...

Martin

[1] http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/v.in.ogr.html

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