Solution 1:
- Go to folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Quantum GIS Lisboa\bin
- open file 'qgis.bat' in a text editor
- add below '@echo off':
'SET SHAPE_ENCODING=UTF-8' (without quotes)
If this does not help, move on to Solution 2:
within the folder of your shapefile, create an additional .cpg-file th
Dear QGIS Users & Developers,
we use QGIS for Land registration and land use planning in the
framework of capacity building inside the Laotian government system.
Since using QGIS 1.8, we face the following problem with lao fonts:
when loading a shapefile (UTF-encoding enabled) with lao font entri
