[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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