Thanks, Dilawar. The article was very interesting/useful. But for a simpleton like me, the question then is: How do I ensure that QGIS3 in particular is using UTF-8 encoding every time?
Sharad On Monday, December 4, 2023 at 1:31:28 PM UTC+5:30 Dilawar Singh wrote: > The answer is not going to be simple. > > Make sure that every time you save or open the file, the application uses > encoding utf-8. Microsoft uses another weird encoding called utf-16 ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16). Stay away from utf-16 it if you > want to copy-paste anything from the web or web-based tools. > > Long answer: > https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/ > > best, > Dilawar > > > > ---- On Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:24:28 +0530 *Sharad Lele <shara...@gmail.com>* > wrote --- > > Hi folks, I am using QGIS and I want to create variable names in > Devanagari (for instance जिला instead of District). If I create a new > column in the attribute table and enter the column name in Devanagari using > Microsoft Indic Language Tool on my computer, it seems to work (जिला is > shown as the column name). But the moment I save the edits and reopen the > attribute table, this gets truncated into something like जिल?. The last > character is not really a question mark, something more complex. > > Any suggestions for making the column names appear and save properly in > Devanagari? (The same would be true for Kannada or other scripts, I am > sure). > > Sharad > > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to datameet+u...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/b7074482-2d88-4762-8765-eb8b55bee3b0n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/b7074482-2d88-4762-8765-eb8b55bee3b0n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/feff88da-2d89-4f0b-aa7b-4342f78fac2dn%40googlegroups.com.
