Feature request #18782
charset dialog window
| Status: | Open | ||
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| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: | - | ||
| Category: | Data Source Manager | ||
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | |
| Easy fix?: | No | Copied to github as #: | 26669 |
Description
QGIS parses shapefiles with or without a CPG file to UTF-8 by default.
You can override this manually, but this often leads to trouble because staff is not always aware of this problem.
I've often seen statt loading ISO-8859-1 coded DBFs in QGIS. QGIS parses it as UTF-8 and when edits are done, things get messed up.
This results in ISO-8859-1 (loaded as UTF-8) and UTF-8 mixed entries, which get saved as UTF-8.
Is it possible to add some kind of dialog with asks for the charset, if no CPG file is available? Perhaps with a small preview window of characters making trouble. A dialog windows, like it's used for SRS/CRS ... even Microsoft Excel has such a dialog window :)
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History
#1
Updated by Jürgen Fischer almost 6 years ago
- Related to Bug report #13203: When opening Shapefile the .cpg file is ignored in Windows 8.1 added