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12 questions linked to/from How to encode shapefiles from LATIN1 to UTF-8?
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Which character encoding is used by the DBF file in shapefiles?
Which character-encoding is used by the dbf-file in shapefiles? It seems it is handled different, based on the program and the local encoding-settings of the machine. Which encoding is 'right' - ...
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Change Shapefile data source encoding?
I tried to change the only the shapefile datasource encoding through properties and also How to encode shapefiles from LATIN1 to UTF-8? but it doesn't change it.
Without saving the QGIS project can'...
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Creating shapefile with UTF-8 encoded attributes with ogr2ogr
I'm using GDAL/OGR's ogr2ogr command line tool to export data from a PostGIS-enabled PostgreSQL database to various GIS file formats, Shapefile amongst them. To create a shapefile with the default ...
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Converting shapefile from Shift_JIS to UTF-8 when the usual methods fail
Long story short, I'm trying to import this ESRI shapefile of Japan into CartoDB. (Sorry, no direct link: to download, click on the orange ファイルのダウンロード button, check 同意する to agree to the T&C, then ...
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ogr2ogr encoding on Windows using os4geo shell with Census data
I'm trying to load Census county level TIGER/line spatial layers into PostGIS using ogr2ogr in Windows.
Is there anyway to configure the encoding to LATIN1?
example:
ogr2ogr -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"...
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How to check the encoding in the .dbf files?
I am having difficulties when I try to load a shapefile into my database, the is because I do not know the encoding of the dbf portion of the shapefile.
The attribute tables are in Spanish, I have ...
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Set encoding when using ogr2ogr to export from Oracle db to MapInfo table?
I am trying to automate the export of spatial data from a oracle database to mapinfo .tab files. Using this thread I made my script. However I can't see how to set the encoding right.
My data have ...
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Converting encoding using ogr2ogr on macOS
I'm trying to convert my shapefiles from ISO-8859-10, also known as latin6 using ogr2ogr on my Mac like this (learned from here):
export SHAPE_ENCODING="latin6"
ogr2ogr file_utf8.shp file.shp -lco ...
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Viewing French characters in QGIS Attribute table
I have a shapefile 'output' with encoding windows-1252 IANA encoding. The attributes of a column contain some French characters, which appear as ?.
Even I tried changing the encoding of QGIS itself to ...
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Error accents and special characters
I am a master's student in Ecology and Environment in Portugal. It's been a few months since I had my first contact with QGIS.
When using a shapefile, in the attribute table, I select by expression, ...
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Using linguistic phonetic alphabet in QGIS?
I want to know if there is a way to use the International Phonetic Alphabet in QGIS?
I am working with a group of linguistics that want to map dialectic varibility in a language (Nahuatl) and I am ...
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Why is “Clip vector by extent” converting my vector to ISO-8859 encoding?
I’m using the extents of one vector to clip another, using GDAL Vector processing “Clip vector by extent” function. Both vectors are encoded as UTF-8. So why the resulting vector is encoded as ISO-...
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