[Qgis-user] GDAL utf-8 workaround

[Andre Joost]

Hi Ramon,

I agree with you. I fixed the utf-8 issue by inserting
SET SHAPE_ENCODING=UTF-8
at the beginning of the qgis.bat. No problems since then.

HTH,
André Joost

Am 02.11.12 05:41, schrieb Ramon Andiñach:
> On windows, with OSGeo packages, doing that will probably create other problems.
>
> -ramon.
>
> On 02/11/2012, at 12:28, Vladimir Naumov<sendmeoffer at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Dear Sotiris,
>>
>> the problem was fixed months ago. Try new GDAL 1.9.2
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vladimir.
>>
>> 01.11.2012 23:30, S. Koukoulas (lists) пишет:
>>> nice one!
>>> I did something similar by saving Greek fields in a new table (in
>>> Libreoffice Calc) and then used a common field to join them back to the
>>> attribute table. This can also be used to change from other greek
>>> encodings to utf-8 (through Libreoffice Calc) - a workaround until the
>>> problem is fixed...
>>> sotiris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/23/2012 04:34 PM, Koos Hagg wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Trying the value 'utf-8' (no quotes) in a .cpg file did not work for
>>>> me (caps or not)
>>>>
>>>> But i did find that i could get around the problem for now by opening
>>>> my shapefile's .dbf with Libreoffice Calc, (which opens it fine) and
>>>> saving the dbf (save as, same name, overwrite).
>>>>
>>>> So at least that's a simple way to fix that for the time being.
>>>>
>>>> Koos
>>>>
>>>>
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