I think you might be doing it right the second time (when you save as shape in utf8 encoding), but perhaps you are still reading it as non-UTF8 coding, hence you would see it wrong. When you open the new shape file, do you select UTF8 as encoding? Agus
2011/10/25 Koos Hagg <[email protected]>: > Thanks for the idea. I thought of that but unfortunately it's not working > > when I load the csv (ignoring the incorrect characters) and go to save as a > new csv in utf8, a dialog pops up saying: >> >> Save Error >> Export to vector file failed. >> Error: creation of data source failed (OGR error:) > > > i get this error in 1.7.1-2and the latest dev version > So that's no go. tried doing the same thing 'save as' but then a shapefile, > but that still has incorrect characters. > > I did see the XY tools plugin by Richard Duivenvoorde, but I think it's the > wrong way around for this case, seems to me that it is designed for > digitizing from the canvas, to fill x,y columns, instead of take xy columns > and plot them... > > > Koos > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Agustin Lobo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think you must read it "wrong" and then use Save As to change the >> encoding, but >> I've not done that recently. >> Agus >> >> 2011/10/25 Koos Hagg <[email protected]>: >> > Hi Everyone, >> > >> > Is there a way to force the Delimited text plugin to read/process UTF8 >> > encoded .csv's? >> > >> > I am working with Vietnamese characters, which display fine encoded >> > UTF8. >> > Working from an access database, I export my queries/tables/whatever and >> > save them as a csv, in UTF8 with OpenOffice. That works fine. If I then >> > open >> > my csv with notepad++ or similar, the characters are preserved- great! >> > But >> > when I bring the file in with the Delimited text plugin, the characters >> > are >> > messed up. Why is this? how can I fix it? >> > >> > Alternatively: >> > I can save the tables I want as dbf, which actually load nicely into >> > QGIS as >> > a table, no problems with characters. My tables have Lat & Long columns. >> > >> > How can I tell QGIS to draw points/create a spatial layer based on those >> > 2 >> > columns? Is there a plugin for that that I have missed? >> > >> > Right now my work-around is to load both a csv and a dbf, and then join >> > the >> > dbf to the csv points layer, and save as shapefile, deleting the fields >> > that >> > are no good. It works but it is a little cumbersome. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > Koos Hagg >> > >> > Oh, using QGIS 1.8+ on Windows 7 (64 bit) >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Qgis-user mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
