[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #1310: Saving/Loading Unicode data in shapefiles

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#1310: Saving/Loading Unicode data in shapefiles
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        Reporter:  zachariahyoder                    |         Owner:  nobody                                       
            Type:  enhancement                       |        Status:  closed                                       
        Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |     Milestone:  Version 1.0.0                                
       Component:  Vectors                           |       Version:  HEAD                                         
      Resolution:  worksforme                        |      Keywords:  unicode internationalization shapefile saving
Platform_version:                                    |      Platform:  All                                          
        Must_fix:  No                                |   Status_info:  0                                            
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Changes (by aghisla):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => worksforme

Comment:

 This problem does not affect QGIS 1.0 preview1 for Windows. I modified a
 field in a shapefile adding non-ASCII characters (àòè§ç), saved edits and
 reopened the table. They are all correctly displayed.

 Anyway, if I open the dbf file with OpenOffice or Excel, the characters
 are correctly displayed if I choose Western Europe (ISO-8859-15/EURO) or (
 Windows-1252/WinLatin 1). It doesn't work with UTF-8 nor Wester Europe
 (DOS/OS2-850/International) encoding, the latter is OpenOffice default
 choice.

 I work on Windows XP home with an Italian keyboard layout.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1310#comment:1>
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