I'm running QGIS 2.1.4 and Windows 7. For each layer, under properties there is a drop down box called 'data source encoding'. Mine is set to 'system'. I am wondering what this means, there seems to be a lot of options one can choose from.
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1It mainly concerns character encoding and how they are represented by the software application. There are some posts which discuss this such as What is character encoding and why should I bother with it; Which character encoding is used by the DBF file in shapefiles?– JosephCommented May 31, 2016 at 11:17
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In most cases, you can leave it to System.
If you read data from OpenStreetMap, it will be encoded UTF-8. So if you experience strange characters in parts of the world where the latin alphabet is used with umlauts or accents, keep an eye on the encoding.
The same might happen with cyrillic, chinese or japanese data. These might be set to other encodings than utf-8.
