Re: [GRASS-user] Importing ESRI Shapefile might cause attribute data corruption

2013-02-18 Thread Martin Landa
Hi, 2013/2/15 Maris Nartiss : > JFYI > GRASS is also hit hard by recent GDAL/OGR ESRI Shapefile encoding > saga. Importing ESRI Shapefile with non-latin text most likely will > corrupt Your text. take a look on new parameter 'encoding' in `v.in.ogr` [1]. This could help. ... v.in.ogr dsn=/home/u

Re: [GRASS-user] Importing ESRI Shapefile might cause attribute data corruption

2013-02-18 Thread Benjamin Ducke
Maris, This sounds a like a truly horrible problem. Thanks for raising awareness of this. Are there any other sources on the web where it would be possible to get more information about this? Have you tried downgrading only the Shapefile drivers in the GDAL 1.9.x release? Best, Ben On 02/15/

[GRASS-user] Importing ESRI Shapefile might cause attribute data corruption

2013-02-15 Thread Maris Nartiss
JFYI GRASS is also hit hard by recent GDAL/OGR ESRI Shapefile encoding saga. Importing ESRI Shapefile with non-latin text most likely will corrupt Your text. Symptoms - even when setting correct encoding for wxgui in preferences, non-latin letters are shown grabbled and doubled (two garbage symbols