[Qgis-developer] adding encoding file

Jürgen E. Fischer jef at norbit.de
Wed May 19 12:48:29 EDT 2010


Hi Maxim,

On Wed, 19. May 2010 at 10:41:52 -0500, Maxim Dubinin wrote:
> 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.

Looks like shapelib supports codepages in CPG and LDID both for reading
(DBFGetCodePage()) and creating (DBFCreateEx()) DBFs.

Jürgen

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