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projection description, using a well-known text representation of coordinate reference systems

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Why is my prj file not being read by QGIS?

I am using QGIS 1.8.0, and have been given a shapefile containing .shp, .prj, .shx, .dbf, however, qgis will not load the .prj file stating an invalid data source. … The .prj file reads: PROJCS["British_National_Grid",GEOGCS["GCS_OSGB_1936",DATUM["D_OSGB_1936",SPHEROID["Airy_1830",6377563.396,299.3249646]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]] …
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