[GRASS-user] Importing Mapinfo files with encoding "cp1253' -- correction: windows-1253

[Nikos Alexandris]

Nikos Alexandris wrote:

> 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].

That should be windows-1253

> Passing this while importing the data in GRASS, like
>
> v.in.ogr dsn=Roads.TAB out=roads encoding=cp1253 --o

v.in.ogr dsn=Roads.TAB out=roads encoding=windows-1253 --o

does not work either.

..

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

Nikos