[GRASS-user] v.label utf8 possible?

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Robert Kuszinger <kuszinger at giscom.hu> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'd like to create a label for a point vector map with point names to be
> utilized in map composer (ps.map).
>
> Everything works except that I cannot use my UTF8 strings. They are rendered
> as latin1 as far as I can see.
>
> Using d.vect strings are displayed correctly:
>
> d.vect --quiet map=places at Duna where="type='village' OR type='town'"
> color=none fill_color=red width=1 icon=basic/circle attribute_column=name
> label_color=black label_size=9 font=LinBiolinum_R encoding=UTF-8
>
> but there is no encoding option in v.label.

AFAIK there is no encoding support available in v.labels at time.
Please open an enhancement ticket for this at

https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/newticket
(requires to register first at OSGeo, see there).

> I've found some links to
> v.label.sa which is not available in my Grass setup nor on the extension
> list.

Unfortunately v.label.sa is not compliant with GRASS GIS 7, see
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1942

[...]
> Is there a chance to create it at all? UTF-8 is essential and some
> characters I need to print are not available in latin1.

Fully agreed! Let's follow up via ticket on this.

Markus


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