Timeline for How to read Greek fonts (ISO-8859-7) in shapefile attributes within QGIS 1.8.0?
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| Dec 16, 2012 at 9:09 | history | edited | AndreJ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2012 at 8:41 | history | edited | AndreJ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 15, 2012 at 12:34 | comment | added | nickves | I don't blame them. Although (trust me on this!) the world would be a better place is everyone used the same encoding routines. You can't imagine how many localized char sets, are out there, and how much guess work it needs to get it right. For example, if you don't know about the magic number 8859-7 , you'll only see gibberish. | |
| Dec 15, 2012 at 12:14 | comment | added | AndreJ | ISO-8859-7 is the standard encoding for Greek alphabet support. You can't blame Greek authorities to use that. And it depends on your locale settings what Windows uses apart from utf-8. | |
| Dec 15, 2012 at 11:54 | comment | added | nickves | ISO-8859-7 is the root of all evils. Windows still saves in that encoding by default | |
| Dec 15, 2012 at 6:00 | history | edited | AndreJ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 14, 2012 at 19:54 | history | answered | AndreJ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |