Problem confirmed here
Example of prj file (produced by GRASS):
Hi there,
in Germany, we still quite often have Gauss-Krüger 4 projection for the
source data from clients, formerly edited with ArcGIS.
QGIS obviously has some problems with GK4 (EPSG:31468)
When i import a shape with a .prj-file from ArcGIS, it doesn't promt for
the crs, but immediately
Hi there,
It could be a .prj file problem, apparently arc can sometimes write .prj
without a TOWGS84 tag, which confuses OGR, and hence confuses QGIS. For
instance see: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2012-March/015993.html
In master, OGR has been compiled to take a best guess and