Excellent! I've changed how Join Attributes works a bit (in trunk), so hopefully problems like this will be less frequent in the future. If you have a chance, I'd appreciate a few tests to make sure that what was working before is *still* working :-)
Cheers, Carson On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Claas Leiner <claas.lei...@eschenlaub.de> wrote: > 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 >> > -- Carson J. Q. Farmer ISSP Doctoral Fellow National Centre for Geocomputation National University of Ireland, Maynooth, http://www.carsonfarmer.com/ _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user