[Gvsig_english] never ending story: gvSIG and german umlauts

Benjamin Ducke benjamin.ducke at oxfordarch.co.uk
Wed May 13 16:23:52 CEST 2009


Hi Wolfgang,

did you ever try UTF-8 encoding?

Cheers,

Ben

Wolfgang Qual wrote:
> Hi list,
> again a comment on gvSIG and german umlauts: when creating a new shapefile in 
> gvSIG, still, the field calculator cannot be used to add german umlauts. I do 
> not really understand this. Maybe someone of you has an answer for this.
> I installed the extension extShalom and defined the font encoding for another 
> table that was stored as iso 8859-1in calc (used CP1252 within the extShalom 
> dialogue), but still, the field calculator just created little squares 
> instead of the desired umlauts. BTW, I had some problems during editing-mode 
> (the shapefile could not be closed) which did not come up before the 
> installation of this extension. 
> 
> Best,
> Wolfgang
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