[GRASS-user] Importing Mapinfo files with encoding "cp1253'

[Nikos Alexandris]

I got some Mapinfo vector data with Greek characters in both the 
attribute column names and the attribute row strings. Initially, both in 
GRASS and QGIS the characters appear messy. I verified, inside QGIS, 
that the encoding in question is "cp1253" [0]. Passing this while 
importing the data in GRASS, like

v.in.ogr dsn=Roads.TAB out=roads encoding=cp1253 --o

does not work though (using ogrinfo --version, GDAL 1.10.1, released 
2013/08/26).  Is there a proper encoding instruction to pass to 
v.in.ogr, other than "cp1253"? I want to avoid solving this externally.

Nikos

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1253