[Qgis-developer] adding encoding file

[William Kyngesburye]

What timing - I was just wrestling with this yesterday - going *to* Arc.

One problem that I discovered is that if the encoding is set in the DBF header (the LDID value), and which GDAL automatically does when creating shapefiles, Arc ignores the cpg file.  And I think that GDAL uses the wrong value (if it's intended to be UTF-8), since they didn't work in Arc.  I couldn't get a unicode shapefile to work in Arc until I zero'd the DBF LDID and added the cpg file.

On May 19, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Maxim Dubinin wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Maxim
> 
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