[Qgis-user] OSM plugin encoding problem

[Andre Joost]

Am 10.03.2013 08:09, schrieb Andre Joost:
> Am 10.03.2013 06:20, schrieb Nicholas Klein-Baer:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using the OSM plugin for qGIS to convert some .osm data to
>> shapefiles. The .osm data in question has cyrillic characters in some
>> the tags, but when I save as a shapefile something seems to be going
>> wrong: The cyrillic characters all appear as question marks in the
>> resulting attribute table. I've tried specifying the encoding as UTF-8
>> in the 'save vector layer as ...' dialog box (this is the encoding
>> system used by OSM, correct?) but it doesn't seem to help.
>
> That's a known bug in QGIS Lisboa. It has nothing to do with the OSM
> plugin, but with the shapefile driver.
>


EDIT:
I just saw that there is a brandnew "Shapefile Encoding Fixer" plugin 
available for qgis. I haven't tried it yet, but it might be what you want.

> HTH,
> André Joost