Hi Markus, Christine,
I have not tried QGIS 3 yet (still QGIS 2...),
but normally, Japanese people use "Shift_JIS", "CP932" or "UTF-8"
encoding for Kanji.
Regards,
Ko
2018-08-23 21:45 GMT+09:00 MH :
> Dear Christine,
>
> Thanks, indeed it was very easy. When adding the SHP file you can chose
Markus Hauser wrote
> I have a SHP file (from Geospatial Information Authority of Japan) with
> Kanji letters.
> How can I display those correct? Now I only get weird Latin letters.
You should choose an appropriate encoding for the shapefile in its
properties > source tab. Beeing not an expert in