[Qgis-user] qgis2 data source encoding

[Andre Joost]

Am 13.11.2013 15:47, schrieb
j.allain at agglo-paysflers.fr:
> Hello,
>
> If i load a "LATIN1" postgis table with qgis1.8, it is loaded without
> any problem. If i load the same table under qgis2.0.1 32bits
> character are not recognized, worst, the data source encoding drop
> down list is empty. I had to save the project, edit it with notepad++
> and set the character encoding by hand.
>

Have a look under Settings -> Options, Datasource tab.
You can deactivate "Ignore shapefile encoding"

Maybe that also works on postgis tables.


> It seems that we try to add more and more fonctionnality in qgis
> without ensure that actual ones are really functional and constant. I
> use Qgis since many years and i think qgis2 is really less stable
> than 1.8.
>

Well, Qgis 1.8 had a problem with shapefiles different from utf-8. This 
was not a problem in Qgis 1.7.3, and was fixed in 1.9 already. So not 
everything gets worse...

Greetings,
André Joost