[Qgis-user] Editing dbf attributes via Python Console

[stefaan dondeyne]

Hi Magnus,

thanks for the responce; 

Honestly, I have no idea as in ArcView 3.2 never had to bother about this; if I open it in qGIS (I am working with 0.11-2 on Windows XP-sp2), and do a "save shapefile is" it devault indicates "encoding: UTF-8" - should I change that - trying other ones ?

Stefaan
 
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From: Magnus Homann <magnus at homann.se>
To: stefaan dondeyne <stefaan_dondeyne at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Sent: Monday, 3 November, 2008 18:39:04
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Editing dbf attributes via Python Console

stefaan dondeyne skrev:

> (1) by the sheer fact of adding a colum to the table say "veg_general" - in the original table all records get affected with text using special characters so e.g. in the field "vegetation" something which was
>  - "/Savana arbórea/" is transformed into "/Savana arbórea/" or
> "/Plantação florestal/" into "/Plantação florestal/"
>  prety annoying if you want to use that for your legend...

What character encoding was originally used for the file? Spunds like a problem with
the table getting saved using another character encoding.

Magnus



      
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