I have a shapefile with names for Regions. These don't seem to contain special characters but ugly hieroglyphs. What can I do do display them correctly. If I import the shape as UTF-8 it doesn't work...

Also the Names are in a dbase table. So is it possible to save a dbase table in utf8 or is there a different way of dealing with it?

I have a shapefile with names for Regions. These don't seem to contain special characters "Ä", "Ü", "Ö", "ß" but ugly hieroglyphs. 

What can I do to display them correctly. If I import the shape as UTF-8 it doesn't work.

The names are in a dbase table. So is it possible to save a dbase table in UTF-8 or is there a different way of dealing with it?

I have a shape file with names for Regions. These don't seem to contain special characters but ugly hyroglyphes. What can I do do display them correctly. If I import the shape as UTF-8 it doesn't work...

Also the Names are in a dbase table. So is it possible to save a dbase table in utf8 or is there a different way of dealing with it

I have a shapefile with names for Regions. These don't seem to contain special characters but ugly hieroglyphs. What can I do do display them correctly. If I import the shape as UTF-8 it doesn't work...

Also the Names are in a dbase table. So is it possible to save a dbase table in utf8 or is there a different way of dealing with it?