[Therion] shapefiles and encodings...

[Philippe Vernant]

Hi Xavier, 

Have you try to change the encoding specs in QGIS ? 
I have had the same issue with IGN files, and changing the specs in QGIS did the trick.

Cheers,
Phil


> On 19 Oct 2022, at 11:34, Xavier Robert <xavier.robert at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an other question about shapefiles produced by Therion.
> 
> In my language (french), we are using accentuated characters. For that,  In Therion :
> all my files begin with ‘encoding utf-8’. 
> encoding-default and encoding-sql in therion.ini are set up tp UTF-8 (in /usr/local/etc and $HOME) (but therion --print-init-file still gives ASCII as encodings…) 
> I am exporting shapefiles with the line : export map -proj plan -fmt esri -o MyOutput -layout my_layout -enc UTF-8
> 
> When I load the point2d.shp in QGis, QGis tells me that the encoding of the shapefile is utf-8.
> But, when I edit the attribut table, in the _TEXT field, I still have strange signs in place of the accentuated characters. For instance, I do not read « Vers S. Chatière », but 'Vers S. Chatière’.
> 
> Does someone have an idea to correct this behavior and get the right encoding ? 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Xavier
> 
> 
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