Bug report #13487
Updated by Paolo Cavallini over 6 years ago
QGIS allows you to create a dbf table (associated with a shp) with invalid column names (e.g. "1"). As a consequence, further commands may obviously fail. IMHO we shouldn't allow invalid names.
See e.g. http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=988&t=56672
See e.g. http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=988&t=56672