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

[Chris Crook]

Interesting ... One other option in 2.0 is that you can select the file encoding.  It is UTF8 initially (actually the default is whatever you used last for a file of the same extension), so you may be able to load your Mac files by selecting a different encoding.

Glad you've got it sorted

Cheers
Chris
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From: Marc Dupuis-Desormeaux [marcd2 at me.com]
Sent: 13 December 2013 17:01
To: Michael Goldstein
Cc: Joshua Brooks; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org; Chris Crook
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Fwd: adding a CSV delimited text layer

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<mailto: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<mailto:ccrook at linz.govt.nz>> wrote:
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