Thanks for answers, when I openend the termine.dbf with OpenOffice.org, delete the dbf-infos in the column-heads, save the file as *.odt and then save the file as *.dbf (utf8), I can join the termine.dbf. The encoding was the problem, I think.
Claas ----------------------------------------- Dr.-Ing. Claas Leiner Praxis für Landschaft, Vegetation und freie Geoinformationssysteme Wilhelmshöher Allee 304 E 34131 Kassel Tel. 0561/6026527 claas.lei...@eschenlaub.de http://www.eschenlaub.de/landveg ---------------------------------------- Bernd Vogelgesang schrieb: >> Tested with attached shapefile and dbf file, however, I suspect it has >> something to do with the encoding of your shapefile (how was it >> created?), because while this file does not work, other shapefiles >> (using for example UTF-8) work fine, including other shapefiles joined >> with your dbf file. >> Can you provide any further details? >> Carson > > Hi Claas and the others, > this shapefile was created by me (nice surprise to find it as an issue > here ;) ) > I digitized it from a WMS-Layer with QGIS 1.4 OSGEO4W-Installation on XP > in UTF-8 with the first 3 table columns. > The other data columns were added in OpenOffice Calc and several > corrections of the dbf were made in Calc as well. Can this be the reason? > Did do this more often and haven't had problems before. > Is there sth particular stored within the shape file itself about the > database structure that is now leading to the malfunction? (No idea > about the inner anatomy of shapes) > > If this is not the case, could it be then some kind of data corruption > caused by compressing for sending by email? (just a wild guess) > > Bernd > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user