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

[Sylvain Maillard]

Hi,

in the layer manager, menu "Settings" / then "preferences", tab
"attribute", there is a field to specify encoding for data => this does not
change the encoding of the data, but the encoding used to display it ...

Sylvain


2014-06-12 17:12 GMT+02:00 Nikos Alexandris <nik at nikosalexandris.net>:

> 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
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