[Qgis-user] Fwd: adding a CSV delimited text layer

[Marc Dupuis-Desormeaux]

I used open office and everything sorted itself out.

Thanks for all the help






On 2013-12-12, at 6:32 PM, Michael Goldstein <michael.goldstein7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've had confusing CSV incompatibility issues as a Mac user (though not with GQIS).  Turns out that Mac Excel does not code the files in UTF-8, and that chokes some applications.
> 
> One quick fix was to load the file into Text Wrangler and save it specifying UTF-8 as the character coding.  Another, is to use Open Office calc, which also lets you control character coding.
> 
> This may not be the problem, but when I saw that the user was on a Mac, it came to mind.
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Dec 12, 2013, at 5:31 PM, Joshua Brooks wrote:
> 
>> Interesting. Chris sent me a copy, Linux with 2.0.1 was happy to use it as it was. There were extra unnamed and blank cols and line endings were CR.
>> 
>> On Dec 13, 2013 3:02 AM, "Chris Crook" <ccrook at linz.govt.nz> wrote:
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