Thanks a lot for your advices,<br>I tried to assign encoding cp1250 to the dbf file, I saw the czech characters well, but after exporting to postgis and then adding this postgis layer to the view the czech characters appear again as squares (see file test_cp1250 in attachment).<br>
I also tried to creat completely new shapefile (in gvSIG 1.11.0) with czech characters in atribute table and with encoding UTF-8, but exactly the same problem appeared (see file test_UTF8 in attachment).<br>And I am sure, that the database is in UTF-8.<br>
Thanks,<br>Magdalena<br>