[Gvsig_english] gvSIG and external tables, font-encoding etc.

[Wolfgang Qual]

Dear Francisco,
thank you very much. I remember that we discussed already about this in the 
past. The extension is great, but this functionality should be really part of 
gvSIG-core. Besides, installing unofficial extensions is not possible in my 
office. well, that's my problem at the moment...

Best,
Wolfgang


Am Montag 06 April 2009 12:53:58 schrieb Francisco José Peñarrubia:
> Hi, Wolfgang.
>
> gvSIG is well tested to work with ñ. The default enconding with PostGIS
> and dbf tables is LATIN1 (ISO-8859-1). To operate with dbf tables in
> different encodings, you may need to install extShalom plugin (from
> non-official extensions repository).
>
> https://gvsig.org/plugins/downloads/extshalom
>
> Best regards.
>
> Fran Peñarrubia
> www.scolab.es
>
> Wolfgang Qual escribió:
> > Good morning everyone.
> > I will continue to report about my little (serious!) problems regarding
> > german umlauts and modifiying attribute tables in gvSIG. My table
> > contains values like '2344_TÄ' and I would like to replace that '_TÄ'
> > with 'tae'. The strange thing is that it is _possible_ to select these
> > values using the filter function with the expression [column_name] like
> > '%_TÄ'; all those values are selected - wonderful. However, when trying
> > to replace the questioned values using the field calculator, gvSIG fails:
> > nothing is replaced. It is only possible to replace the umlauts manually.
> > I do not understand this (reaction of gvSIG). Therefore, I would be most
> > grateful for some comments or _any_ ideas on how to solve this. BTW, do
> > you have the same problem with the spanish 'ñ'?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Wolfgang
> >
> > ----8<------
> >
> > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> >
> >> Datum: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:50:47 +0200
> >> Von: Wolfgang Qual <wolfgang.qual at gmx.net>
> >> An: Users list <gvsig_internacional at runas.cap.gva.es>
> >> Betreff: [Gvsig_english] gvSIG and external tables, font-encoding etc.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi list,
> >> I have some remarks/questions on external tables and font-encoding
> >> regarding
> >> gvSIG 1.1.2 and the coming versions of gvSIG.
> >>
> >> * currently, it is not possible to edit external tables that were
> >> imported from csv. It seems, as if only dbf-files can be edited in
> >> gvSIG. You might say: well, do this conversion within openoffice. Right.
> >> But on my computer, I
> >> only have openoffice 2.3 installed (the official computer of my office)
> >> - and
> >> this version of calc is not able to write me a dbf-file. It simply
> >> crashes.
> >> This strange behaviour is reported as a bug in calc. I can also convert
> >> this
> >> file in excel (currently, excel is still available..), but there, I do
> >> not have any possibility to modify/set the font encoding.
> >> * Font-encoding: I do not know, which font-encoding gvSIG accepts. I
> >> imported
> >> a dbf-file that was created in Excel. This table has some values (text)
> >> which
> >> needs to be processed. To be more precise: I need to convert substrings
> >> like 'ae' into Ä (german umlaut). I found the function (replace) in the
> >> field
> >> calculator of gvSIG. But this will not create an 'Ä' but only a
> >> square-shaped
> >> character - I think that the font-encoding is the reason for this.
> >>
> >> Therefore, I would be really happy, if you could answer me the following
> >> questions:
> >>
> >> * how do you work with csv-files in gvSIG: is it really true that only
> >> dbf can
> >> be edited? Which software are you using to save files as dbf?
> >> * which font-encoding is used within gvSIG? Or: which encoding do you
> >> use when
> >> exporting a file from openoffice into a different format?
> >> * will there be a possiblity to edit tables derived from csv/txt in
> >> gvSIG?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Wolfgang
> >>
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