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stockinu

Greek signs export & Attribute table length

Hi *,

I've got two problems - your help would be very much appreciated.
1. Exporting attribute tables as .csv- or .kml-files seems to destruct
Greek signs (even in UTF-8) though they're perfectly visible in QGIS
itself. Any suggestions?
2. I can't find a way to extend the length of the string-fields of the
attribute table over 254 signs. Any ideas here?

Thanks a lot,
Ulrich

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Alexander Bruy

Re: [Qgis-user] Greek signs export & Attribute table length

Hi, Ulrich

2012/7/19 <[hidden email]>:
> 2. I can't find a way to extend the length of the string-fields of the
> attribute table over 254 signs. Any ideas here?

I suppose you use shapefile. In this case, you can't have attributes
longer than 255 bytes, this limitation of DBF format (used to store
attributes in shapefiles). If you need longer attributes use another
format, for example PostGIS or SpatiaLite

Hope this helps
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Micha Silver

Re: [Qgis-user] Greek signs export & Attribute table length

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On 07/19/2012 06:28 PM, [hidden email] wrote:

Hi *,

I've got two problems - your help would be very much appreciated.
1. Exporting attribute tables as .csv- or .kml-files seems to destruct Greek signs (even in UTF-8) though they're perfectly visible in QGIS itself. Any suggestions?

I wonder if this [1] bug is also your problem. Setting an environment variable

SHAPE_ENCODING=UTF-8

seems to correct the situation, but only for UTF-8 encoded attribute values.

[1] http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5255

2. I can't find a way to extend the length of the string-fields of the attribute table over 254 signs. Any ideas here?

Thanks a lot,
Ulrich

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