#566: Add encoding suggestions to GUI
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Reporter: cnielsen | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: wxGUI | Version: 6.4.0 RCs
Keywords: | Platform: Unspecified
Cpu: Unspecified |
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A vector dataset of mine has non-ascii characters é è à etc. In the
database table I got the error: {{{Unable to decode value. Set encoding in
GUI Preferences ('Attributes')}}}.
This is a helpful message but in the GUI dialog there are no suggestions
as to what encoding formats are accepted. Perhaps there could be a couple
of suggestions (eg. {{{utf-8, ascii, iso8859-1, koi8-r}}}) to give the
user a hint. Perhaps as a mouse-over, or a link to a help page on accepted
encodings.
Probably more serious problem: this variable is global. It would be good
to have option to choose if the encoding is global, workspace or layer-
related. Martin