I think you must read it "wrong" and then use Save As to change the encoding, but I've not done that recently. Agus
2011/10/25 Koos Hagg <hagg.k...@gmail.com>: > Hi Everyone, > > Is there a way to force the Delimited text plugin to read/process UTF8 > encoded .csv's? > > I am working with Vietnamese characters, which display fine encoded UTF8. > Working from an access database, I export my queries/tables/whatever and > save them as a csv, in UTF8 with OpenOffice. That works fine. If I then open > my csv with notepad++ or similar, the characters are preserved- great! But > when I bring the file in with the Delimited text plugin, the characters are > messed up. Why is this? how can I fix it? > > Alternatively: > I can save the tables I want as dbf, which actually load nicely into QGIS as > a table, no problems with characters. My tables have Lat & Long columns. > > How can I tell QGIS to draw points/create a spatial layer based on those 2 > columns? Is there a plugin for that that I have missed? > > Right now my work-around is to load both a csv and a dbf, and then join the > dbf to the csv points layer, and save as shapefile, deleting the fields that > are no good. It works but it is a little cumbersome. > > Thanks! > Koos Hagg > > Oh, using QGIS 1.8+ on Windows 7 (64 bit) > > _______________________________________________ > 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