Timeline for How to encode shapefiles from LATIN1 to UTF-8?
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| Nov 25, 2016 at 10:09 | comment | added | Muhammad Faizan Khan | I am trying to save single shape file from system to utf-8 but it is not working. gis.stackexchange.com/questions/219092/… | |
| Jul 16, 2012 at 5:48 | comment | added | JaakL | Note that in some situations it may not work, I had this kind of issues: (osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/UTF-8-no-more-td4647456.html) | |
| Oct 19, 2011 at 20:23 | history | edited | whuber | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 19, 2011 at 15:48 | comment | added | unicoletti | Word of caution: for this solution to work qgis must be started in a LATIN1/ISO-8859-1 environment when you open the input shapefile or it won't read it correctly. If you are working in an UTF8 enviroment the conversion might fail silently, corrupting the data, depending on the data in the shapefile. BTW, most OSes now default to UTF8. | |
| Oct 19, 2011 at 13:13 | vote | accept | againstflow | ||
| Oct 19, 2011 at 12:36 | history | answered | urcm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |