[Qgis-user] Greek characters in attribute table

Andre Joost andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de
Sun Nov 5 11:58:39 PST 2017


Am 05.11.2017 um 17:12 schrieb Tilemachos Moymoyris:
> Greetings from Greece,I would like to ask a very common question
> about greek and attribute table. I run win10 32bit and Qgis 2.18.14.
> When i download shapefiles from geodata.gov.gr i am not able to view
> names in attribute table in greek. I get only questionmarks. I have
> tried changing the encoding when opening the file and also i have
> tried to open the dbf file and change the encoding there. I cannot
> view neither in the dbf file the correct characters.
>

In the layers properties, you have to change the encoding from "System" 
or "utf-8" to "Greek" or "ISO-8859-7".

HTH,
André Joost




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