If you work from an MS-Access database, you can use the eVis-plugin to draw the table as points. Have a look at http://biodiversityinformatics.amnh.org/open_source/evis/documentation.php#d0e715
I don't know if this solve your problem with characters ... But so you don't have to export your data to another file. Regards, Asmus Harder 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) LEHMANN + PARTNER DIE STRASSENGUTACHTER LEHMANN + PARTNER GmbH, Schwerborner Straße 1, D-99086 Erfurt Telefon: +49 (0) 361 51804 300 Fax: +49 (0) 361 51804 399 E-Mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.die-strassengutachter.de Geschäftsführer: Dr. Dirk Ebersbach, Jens Morawietz Amtsgericht: Jena HRB 100220 USt-IdNr.: DE 160 115 425
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