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

[Koos Hagg]

Thanks for the idea. I thought of that but unfortunately it's not working

when I load the csv (ignoring the incorrect characters) and go to save as a
new csv in utf8, a dialog pops up saying:

> Save Error
> Export to vector file failed.
> Error: creation of data source failed (OGR error:)
>

i get this error in 1.7.1-2and the latest dev version
So that's no go. tried doing the same thing 'save as' but then a shapefile,
but that still has incorrect characters.

I did see the XY tools plugin by Richard Duivenvoorde, but I think it's the
wrong way around for this case, seems to me that it is designed for
digitizing from the canvas, to fill x,y columns, instead of take xy columns
and plot them...


Koos


On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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