Just to clarify/muddy the situation: I am able to enter long Devanagari text in the District/Jila column without any problems. It is the column/field name itself that I run into problems, which may have to do with the 8 characteri limit?
[image: Screenshot QGIS devanagari field names.jpeg] On Monday, December 4, 2023 at 1:57:04 PM UTC+5:30 Sharad Lele wrote: > 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/29ffbab3-117a-4a67-8988-ae253db7e2cbn%40googlegroups.com.
