Bug report #6327
non-ASCII character corruption in shapefile
| Status: | Closed | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: | - | ||
| Category: | - | ||
| Affected QGIS version: | master | Regression?: | No |
| Operating System: | Easy fix?: | No | |
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | fixed |
| Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | No | Copied to github as #: | 15614 |
Description
- Create a shapefile, choosing UTF8 and adding a text attribute
- Create a feature and fill the text attribute with non-ASCII text (for example 汉字)
- Save the shapefile.
The text of the attribute is replaced by "??"
This does not happen when loading an existing UTF8 shapefile, it can even be modified and saved. "Save as", however, is also affected.
I use QGis master and latest GDAL build from SVN. I am using ArchLinux with a en_US.UTF-8 locale.
I am aware of the previous issues between QGIS and GDAL, but Alexander Bruy told me they were mostly solved now and this problem looks different, hence this new bug report.
History
#1
Updated by Leyan Ouyang over 12 years ago
Everything seems to work much better if I choose the option "Ignore shapefile encoding". What does this new option do exactly ?
#2
Updated by Alexander Bruy about 12 years ago
- Operating System deleted (
ArchLinux) - Status changed from Open to Feedback
Should be fixed in master, see 75dc85b4d652116814873bb7674cab15ce6cde66.
#3
Updated by Leyan Ouyang about 12 years ago
This is the option "Ignore shapefile encoding" I mentioned in the first comment, and it does seem to solve the issue. However, the bug is not fixed in my opinion as the default setting will lead to loss of data. This option should be checked by default while the issues with GDAL are not sorted out.
#4
Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 12 years ago
- Priority changed from High to Normal
#5
Updated by Borys Jurgiel over 11 years ago
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from Feedback to Closed
Fixed in 4fb9879