[GRASS-user] WinGRASS not recognizing accented utf-8 (nor cp1252) attribute values

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

Salim Razzaz wrote
> Hi,
> 
> I've got shape files with Swedish accented letters (ÄÖÅ) in the some of
> the attribute
> values. The Attributes are shwon as they should in the GUI. SQL
> statements, however,
> are not recognizing them. They're also messed up in the command output if
> another
> (not accented) values are queried.
> 
> I sat GRASS_DB_ENCODING to cp1252 firstly and it didn't work. Then I
> converted the
> dbf file into utf-8 and sat it as the value of the variable, to no avail.
> I also
> tried using the 'encoding' parameter in v.in.ogr in both cases, didn't
> work.
> 
> I tried it on windows 8.1 and windows 10. The same is happening in both,
> stable GRASS
> 7.0.5 and GRASS 7.2.0RC1.
> 
> The problem is only happening on Windows. Fedora and Mac OsX don't have
> this issue
> with the same shape files.
> 
> Any suggestion?

for the record, just opened a ticket for this:

https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/3220

please add further information here if needed.



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best regards
Helmut
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