Hi Borys! Once I finish the case studies I join you and try to get some test files from "unusual" encodings
werner On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Borys Jurgiel <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All, > > As most of us know, QGIS 1.8 and 1.9 *in fact doesn't support Shapefiles* > with > encodings other than Latin-1. Assuming that all recent QGIS versions use > GDAL > 1.9, *the last usable version was 1.7.3* (at least for windows users in > Poland). Thanks to the 'ignore shapefile encoding' workaround, QGIS built > against GDAL 1.9 is at least able to open other encodings, however, the > 'Save > layer as' action still creates corrupted files unless you know how to > trick the > encoding selector as well as the layer creating options. > > From my point of view it's just an *incredible regression*, as QGIS just > doesn't support Shapefiles in most languages for a year or so. If there is > anybody else interested in bringing back support for at least UTF-8 and > cp12xx > in QGIS 2.0 pleeeease join me ;)) and review the pull request: > > https://github.com/qgis/Quantum-GIS/pull/492#issuecomment-16282081 > > Maybe someone have a better solution? Maybe someone can provide the test > files > Jürgen suggested? I don't believe nobody cares whether QGIS 2.0 supports > not > Latin-1 Shapefiles or not. > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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