[Qgis-developer] adding encoding file

[Alexander Bruy]

+1 from me too.

Many programs (espessially old) don't support unicode so data are
stored in other encoding and setting up encoding manually when
open dataset is a bit tiring.

2010/5/19 Maxim Dubinin <sim at gis-lab.info>
 
> What do you think about adding capability to read optional cpg (code-page)
> file
> to automatically determine encoding? Sort of like a prj file, but for
> encodings. ESRI software uses *.cpg file for this purpose and we
> could've make use of that too.
>
> Switching back and forth from one encoding to another can be tiring
> and this happens a lot with Cyrillics, well at least in my case :)
>
> And yes, we can work on adding that if devs give green light.

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Alexander Bruy