On 04/12/2013 01:30 PM, Borys Jurgiel 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:
Hi Borys, we use QGIS compiled with GDAL 1.7 on Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu Precise, so we are currently not affected with this regression. I agree, it is total show stopper us too (Slovak and Czech rep. - windows-1250). I will prepare some shapefile in windows-1250 and utf-8 for testing. For a reference, here [1] is a blog post describing this problem. -- 1 - http://ssrebelious.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/qgis-and-gdal1-9-encoding-issue-a-workaround/ -- Ivan Mincik _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
