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Sometimes the fieldnames in the QGIS attribute table get corrupted, mostly it is å, ä, ö that is changed when the layer is opened in another software.

Is there any way to change them or is it only solution to create a new field and copy data to new field?

Yes shapefile, when I am opening the shapefile in ArcView3.2 I cant choose encoding and its get corrupted. There are somethings that is so much easier in ArcView so I am still using it.

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  • What is your vector data container? Shapefile? gis.stackexchange.com/questions/75563/…
    – Comrade Che
    Sep 22, 2022 at 9:39
  • QGIS doesn't have attribute tables, but can display the attributes tables of a dataset. What format is your data? Shapefile, geopackage, CSV, Tab, something else? Not all formats (and not all software) support non-ASCII field names.
    – user2856
    Sep 22, 2022 at 9:39
  • you probably have either saved the layer with the wrong encoding or read the shapefile with an encoding different than the one used to save it
    – Louis Cottereau
    Sep 22, 2022 at 9:48
  • I suspect is an issue with encoding. As @LouisCottereau said you should check with what encoding the file has been saved.
    – Nikos
    Sep 22, 2022 at 10:17
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    Rename fields tool does what you want, see gis.stackexchange.com/a/385939/15183
    – til_b
    Sep 23, 2022 at 10:33

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It's not clear in which case / with which software you encounter the problem.

In QGIS if you know the right encoding you may set it in the layer property : enter image description here

If you dont want to set it each time you may create another sidecar file with the .cpg extension (it's just a text file with for only content the encoding, for the shapefile in my exemple you will create the "DEMO.cpg" sidecar file with UTF-8 as only content)

I think QGIS create shapefile with UTF-8 encoding as default (you may change encoding be saving the shapefile using the "Save Vector Layer as..." and setting the encoding in the window)

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  • thanks but the cpg only saves the table content not the fieldname? Se added picture above
    – Åke Eriksson
    Sep 25, 2022 at 9:40

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