GeoDa displays string records with special characters as empty cells

[jkoschinsky]

GeoDa 1.8.13.5

GeoDa displays string records with special characters (in this case Spanish accents) as empty cells. One of the students in Luc's class needs this.

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[lixun910]

Did you Try menu -- encoding?

On Oct 10, 2016, at 4:21 PM, jkoschinsky [email protected] wrote:

GeoDa 1.8.13.5

GeoDa displays string records with special characters (in this case Spanish accents) as empty cells. One of the students in Luc's class needs this.

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[jkoschinsky]

great, that works, thx.
Is there a way to auto-detect this or raise a flag at read-in to let users
know this option exists?

On 10 October 2016 at 17:46, Xun Li [email protected] wrote:

Did you Try menu -- encoding?

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GeoDa 1.8.13.5

GeoDa displays string records with special characters (in this case
Spanish accents) as empty cells. One of the students in Luc's class needs
this.

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[lixun910]

Yes, see the following, we can keep this ticket open but change the title
to "Auto detect encoding for DBF":

The original DBF standard defines to use ISO8859-1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1, and only ISO8859-1. So, when
you get a Shapefile that is really standards conform, it should be
ISO8859-1. Of course, this (very old) restriction is a not really usable
nowadays.

ArcGIS and Geopublisher, AtlasStyler and Geoserver started to extend the
standard to define the encoding. For ArcGIS
http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/21106,
Geopublisher http://en.geopublishing.org/ and AtlasStyler SLD Editor
http://en.geopublishing.org/, just create a .cpg file (with the same
basename as the other Shapefiles) and fill it with the name of the encoding.

e.g. create a myshape.cpg with a texteditor and insert 5 characters "UTF-8"
and save it. If you then open the Shapefile in ArcGIS or Geopublisher or
AtlasStyler, they will read the textual contents of the DBF in that charset.

Xun Li, Ph.D

Assistant Director for Data Science
Center for Spatial Data Science
University of Chicago
http://spatial.uchicago.edu

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 5:50 PM, jkoschinsky [email protected]
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great, that works, thx.
Is there a way to auto-detect this or raise a flag at read-in to let users
know this option exists?

On 10 October 2016 at 17:46, Xun Li [email protected] wrote:

Did you Try menu -- encoding?

On Oct 10, 2016, at 4:21 PM, jkoschinsky [email protected]
wrote:

GeoDa 1.8.13.5

GeoDa displays string records with special characters (in this case
Spanish accents) as empty cells. One of the students in Luc's class needs
this.

Left (GeoDa) - Right (GIS)

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can you send me the data (if it comes with the .cpg file)?

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just emailed it

On 16 October 2016 at 21:39, Xun Li [email protected] wrote:

can you send me the data (if it comes with the .cpg file)?

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GeoDa 1.8.15.5 — Mac OSX
Confirmed fix: