You should be able to load the data using the "generic" GeoTools data store wizard; and fill in the character set parameter.
The GeoTools library should respect our character set parameter as an override. However some shape files (well the DBF file) also have character set information encoded in the header. -- Jody Garnett On Thursday, 14 June 2012 at 7:19 PM, Silvia Franceschi wrote: > Dear all, > I am trying to display some data from East Europe Countries and I have some > problems with the > visualization of character fields. > The default character set for the data seems to be UTF8, I tried to change it > using one that should > work but it seems that udig can not remember the choice of character set and > if I go a second time > into the modification of the character set I always find the UTF8 selected > and not my selection. > > Is there a way to force a character set for a shapefile in uDig? > > Thanks i advance, > > Silvia > _______________________________________________ > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > http://udig.refractions.net > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > >
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