[Qgis-user] Questions on CSV plugin & UTF8, or dbf to spatial.

[Agustin Lobo]

I think you must read it "wrong" and then use Save As to change the
encoding, but
I've not done that recently.
Agus

2011/10/25 Koos Hagg <hagg.koos at gmail.com>:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Is there a way to force the Delimited text plugin to read/process UTF8
> encoded .csv's?
>
> I am working with Vietnamese characters, which display fine encoded UTF8.
> Working from an access database, I export my queries/tables/whatever and
> save them as a csv, in UTF8 with OpenOffice. That works fine. If I then open
> my csv with notepad++ or similar, the characters are preserved- great! But
> when I bring the file in with the Delimited text plugin, the characters are
> messed up. Why is this? how can I fix it?
>
> Alternatively:
> I can save the tables I want as dbf, which actually load nicely into QGIS as
> a table, no problems with characters. My tables have Lat & Long columns.
>
> How can I tell QGIS to draw points/create a spatial layer based on those 2
> columns? Is there a plugin for that that I have missed?
>
> Right now my work-around is to load both a csv and a dbf, and then join the
> dbf to the csv points layer, and save as shapefile, deleting the fields that
> are no good. It works but it is a little cumbersome.
>
> Thanks!
> Koos Hagg
>
> Oh, using QGIS 1.8+ on Windows 7 (64 bit)
>
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