[Qgis-psc] Is there anybody interested whether QGIS 2.0 will support non-Latin1 Shapefiles?

[Paolo Cavallini]

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Il 12/04/2013 13:30, Borys Jurgiel ha scritto:

> From my point of view it's just an *incredible regression*, as QGIS
> just doesn't support Shapefiles in most languages for a year or
> so.

Agreed, an enormous problem especially for Asian countries.

> If there is anybody else interested in bringing back support for at
> least UTF-8 and cp12xx in QGIS 2.0 pleeeease join me ;)) and review
> the pull request:
> 
> https://github.com/qgis/Quantum-GIS/pull/492#issuecomment-16282081
> 
> Maybe someone have a better solution? Maybe someone can provide the
> test files Jürgen suggested? I don't believe nobody cares whether
> QGIS 2.0 supports not Latin-1 Shapefiles or not.

I suggest to involve Far East developers on this effort: they are
quite interested in having proper support for complex characters.
All the best.
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