[Qgis-user] [1.8.0] Broken UTF-8 support in shapefiles - and workaround

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi Andre,

2012/6/28 Andre Joost <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de>:
> The only thing that does not work as expected:
> All text with non-ASCII-characters (e.g. ä ö ü) is broken.
Fisrt of all this is known issue and it is not QGIS bug, but GDAL one.
See http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5255, http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5340
and http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5508.

Also your solution will work only in some cases, when shapefiles are
in UTF-8 encoding. So if you use in one project shapefiles with different
encodings this will not work. Also this will not work if shapefile encoding
not supported by GDAL recoding method.

-- 
Alexander Bruy