[Qgis-developer] QGIS, Shapefiles, default encoding

[Drexel Peter]

Hi,
please, can anyone tell me what default encoding QGIS uses when loading a Shapefile?
In my QGIS 2.14.7 on Windows 7 64bit  "Ignore shapefile encoding declaration" is checked,
so if I load a Shapefile with a corresponding utf-8-cpg-file using "drag and drop" it is encoded as 'system' and the encoding is wrong (what encoding is 'system'?).
If I load a Shapefile with a corresponding utf-8-cpg-file using "Add Vector Layer" it is encoded as 'utf-8' and the encoding is fine.
In both cases I can change the data source encoding in the properties dialog.

Is it possible to change the behavior of drag and drop to use utf-8

If I uncheck "Ignore shapefile encoding declaration"
and load the shapefile either using "Add Vector Layer" or drag and drop the cpg-file is interpreted correctly and the encoding is set to utf-8.
But now I cannot change the data source encoding in the properties dialog anymore.
I think it should still be possible to change the encoding in the properties dialog.

Peter










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