[Gvsig_english] gvSIG 1.9 and font encoding issue: font encodingautomatically changed?

[roser]

Hi Wolfgang
> Dear all,
> I did one more test:
> 1) set default encoding to cp-1252 in the preferences. closed and
> reopened gvSIG
> 2) created a new layer, added a geometry, added a value for this
> geometry.
> 3) finished editing, reopened the attribute tabel
> 4) within the project manager: select the table of the new layer, go to
> preferences --> encoding of this layer (although font encoding was set
> in preferences) is utf-8
>
>   
I could repeat this and will pas the ticket to developers

> and then
> 1) opened an existing shapefile of our administration. font encoding is
> (seen in project manager, table preferences) cp-1252. ok.
> 2) start edit mode. left edit mode without changes --> font encoding is
> 1252
> 3) export the not-modified layer to shapefile: font encoding remains the
> same.
> 4) once the attribute table is modified (e.g. by adding a new column),
> the font encoding is altered to utf-8 - grrrrrrrrrrrr
>   
This worked fine in my case, the encoding continued to be cp-1252 after 
finishing the edition and saving

> I would be glad, if someone else could try to repeat this (btw, this
> test was done with the build 1253, bin-installation file, ubuntu 9.10
>
>
> Best regards,
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
> Am Montag, den 18.01.2010, 20:37 +0100 schrieb Wolfgang Qual:
>   
>> Dear Juan Lucas,
>> unfortunately, I do not think so. I have set the default font encoding
>> to cp-1252 _using the shalom-dialogue_ in the preferences... Therefore,
>> I really think that it's a bug... Any ideas appreciated. Thank you very
>> much for your thoughts.
>>
>> Best,
>> Wolfgang
>> Am Montag, den 18.01.2010, 13:33 +0100 schrieb Juan Lucas Dominguez
>> Rubio:
>>     
>>> Hello, Wolfgang.
>>> That sounds like the kind of issue you should be able to solve with
>>> that new extension called extShalom. If I'm not wrong, it's goal is
>>> dealing with font encoding, though I've never used it.
>>>  
>>> Regards,
>>>  
>>> Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio
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>>> ______________________________________________________________________
>>> De: gvsig_internacional-bounces at listserv.gva.es en nombre de Wolfgang
>>> Qual
>>> Enviado el: jue 14/01/2010 17:03
>>> Para: Users and Developers mailing list
>>> Asunto: [Gvsig_english] gvSIG 1.9 and font encoding issue: font
>>> encodingautomatically changed?
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi list,
>>> I observed a very strange behaviour of gvSIG regarding font encoding.
>>> I would say, this is a bug, but it is at least a problem for
>>> colleagues of us who are still using ArcView 3.2:
>>> What I did was the following:
>>> 0) start a new view in gvSIG, default font encoding is cp1252 (set in
>>> preferences)
>>> 1) load an oracle spatial layer containing addresses, house numbers
>>> etc
>>> 2) export this layer to shp. Opened it in ArcView 3.2 and found no
>>> problems (all german umlauts are displayed correctly:ä,ö,ü,ß)
>>> 3) started edit mode of the new shapefile, added some columns,
>>> performed some string operations, saved the modifications
>>> 4) opened the modified shapefile in ArcView 3.2. Result: Umlauts
>>> (ü,ö,ä,ß) are not displayed correctly
>>> 5) opened the modified shapefile in gvSIG again, looked at the table
>>> properties in the project manager: font encoding of the table is
>>> UTF-8.
>>>
>>> This is very strange, don't you think? ArcView 3.2 cannot handle UTF-8
>>> encoded data...
>>> Any comments, suggestions are more than welcome!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Wolfgang
>>>
>>>
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