On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:53 AM, JanaKr <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I have imported a shape file of Central Europe with central european > characters (using v.in.ogr). Shape file had been output by arc info GIS > running on windows OS. When I display the imported file in GRASS, the CE > characters are missing. Is there a way to solve the problem and display the > missing characters correctly?
AFAIK it is related to the (limited) support in OGR: see http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc5_unicode http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc23_ogr_unicode http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/882 Best is to express interest by posting to the GDAL list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev/ > Or, at least, "translate" them to ASCII, so > that I get the names without diacritics? You can possibly use OpenOffice to change the encoding of the DBF file. Markus _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
