[Qgis-developer] Several errors

[Maris Nartiss]

JFYI

MS-Windows is broken by design. It uses three(!) different ways how to
encode non-latin letters - OEM, ANSI and Unicode at same time. To make
things worse - it's hard to tell them apart unless You (developer)
know where string comes from. Generally problems arise if QGIS is
using anything that runs trough CMD (.bat files etc).
+ to make things worse, add / and \ issue in path separators. In some
places /\ mixture works, in some - not.

As Korean users aren't the only ones affected, my advice is to have a
user with latin-only letters in username.

GRASS GIS ML archives have some nice discussions about those problems.

Maris.

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2011-March/053874.html

2013/2/12 Sanghee Shin <endofcap at gmail.com>:
> Dear all,
>
> OSGeo Korean chapter carried out a 5 day open source GIS training program including 1.5 day QGIS training several days ago.
>
> During training, I found several errors &  like follows.
>
> 1. Plugin installation failure occurred when user account name is in Korean. With Korean user account name, we couldn't install any plugin. If user account name is in English, that's ok.
>
> 2. In GDAL Georeferencer plugin, if output raster file path includes Korean path name and then this pop up the info window showing "Failed to compute GCP transformation: Transform is not solvable" If file path is in English, that's also ok.
>
> 3. QGIS Master version stil doesn't reflect the current EPSG info, that is very essential to Korean QGIS users. So, Korean users had to update the qgis.db & srs.db manually during the training. Actually I raised this issue and opened a ticket around 2 month ago. http://hub.qgis.org/issues/6820 However nothing updated so far. As far as I know crssync should sync with GDAL automatically during installation, however it seems not to work. Is it a bug of crssync?
>
> We used QGIS master version released in January mainly on Windows and Mac, Ubuntu.
>
> regards,
>
> Sanghee
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