[Qgis-user] QGIS attribute table encoding

[Sake Wagenaar]

Op 27-11-2011 12:41, MORREALE Jean Roc schreef:
> Le 27/11/2011 12:22, Michal Zimmermann a écrit :
>> Hi guys,
>> my native language is Czech which uses signs like ě, š, č, ž etc. If you
>> have a look at 
>> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/51/qgisencoding.png/,
>> you'll see QGIS is having trouble displaying those signs right. Is 
>> there a
>> way to get them right without manually rewriting each one of them? Like
>> setting encoding to the whole dbf file? Shapefiles affected were 
>> previously
>> opened with ArcGIS (with no problem) and probably were created with 
>> ArcGIS
>> as well. If anyone comes up with a solution, please let me know.
>
> When you add a new vector layer, there is a list which allows you to 
> select the charset to be used. It doesn't work if you drag'n drop your 
> file directly into qgis.
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You probably need this character set:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-8859-2