[QGIS-Developer] Loading many Excel-Files in QGIS with correct encoding

[Even Rouault]

Le 15/07/2021 à 21:51, Andrea Giudiceandrea a écrit :
> Il 15/07/2021 20:51, Andrea Giudiceandrea ha scritto:
>> Instead, QGIS imports correctly XLSX files as UTF-8 encoded, while 
>> XLS files are wrongly imported as "system" encoded, even selecting 
>> UTF-8 [3] encoding in the Data Source Manager vector import window.
>
> Looking at GDA/OGR code, I see that the layer imported via XLSX driver 
> advertise the UTF-8 strings (OLCStringsAsUTF8) in the capabilities, 
> while an XLS layer does not.
>
> So, this could be the underlying root cause of the issue.
Good catch! Could you issue a PR to fix this ?
>
> Regards.
>
> Andrea
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