[Qgis-user] Character display
Magnus Homann
magnus at homann.se
Sun Oct 12 12:11:15 PDT 2008
Sergio Zárate Pedroche wrote:
> Hi, I have been experimenting with QGIS for some time, but recently I am
> using it for productive tasks. Several issues have appeared, so I will
> start with one at a a time. One problem is that Spanish characters in
> labels are truncated in the display. Even if I change "language" to
> "latin", accents (á, é, í, ó, ú) and "ñ" do not display properly (the
> character is omitted) and "language" setting returns to "any". I edit
> the shapes´ *.dbf files using NeoOffice. I have used capitals to avoid
> the problem in part but still the "ñ" will not appear in labels. ¿is
> there something I can do? ¿what ASCII filter code should I use for .dbf
> files?
> Advanced thanks for an answer!
The vector files allows specifying a character encoding when opening
them. Have you tried selecting different encodings?
Magnus
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