[Gvsig_english] German Umlaut (ü,ä,ö,ß) and encoding in gvSIG

[Francisco José Peñarrubia]

Hi, Wolfgang.

You can try this extension to read other charsets (in dbf files) than 
Latin1 (the default in gvSIG).

https://gvsig.org/plugins/downloads/extshalom


If you find useful the extension, or you have troubles to use it, please 
let me know and I will try to help you.
The extension is not finished yet, but maybe some day I can find time to 
end it :-) . Anyway, it can be used, the only thing you have to know is 
wich Charset are you using in your dbf file.

Kind regards.

Fran Peñarrubia.
www.scolab.es
gvSIG Team.

Wolfgang Qual escribió:
> Dear list,
> I have a (little) problem in gvSIG: one of our main tasks is to produce maps for internet usage. As we use UMN Mapserver with openlayers for displaying maps online, attribute data has to be stored in UTF-8 (otherwise, umlauts are not displayed correctly in the online maps). Therefore, when using gvSIG, I would need to specify the encoding for attribute data (when creating a new layer or if possible to convert between different encodings). However, I did not (yet) find a possibility to do this. Furthermore, I do not know the encoding used by gvSIG as the default setting. I tried to load UTF-8 coded attribute tables to a gvSIG project, but then, umlauts were not displayed correctly.
> Would be  r e a l l y  happy for some comments regarding that issue!
>
> Best.
> Wolfgang
>