QGIS loses non-latin letters in new shapefiles

[qgib]

Author Name: marisn - (marisn -)
Original Redmine Issue: 5340
Affected QGIS version: master

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Some of the recent changes have introduced attribute data loss for new shapefiles. Still present in 67c77e5

Steps to reproduce:

• Create a new Shapefile with a text field;
• Save it as "UTF-8" to provide non-latin letter support;
• Digitize a new feature and use following string as it's text attribute value: "Āšņļ ēždžķļūī";
• Finish digitizing, save edits;
• Open attribute table to observe all non-latin letters converted to "?".

I double checked that in layer properties "Provider encoding" is UTF-8.

qt 4.8.1

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Related issue(s): #14989 (relates), #15355 (relates)
Redmine related issue(s): 5255, 5911

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[qgib]

Author Name: Alexander Bruy (@alexbruy)

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Probably related to #14989

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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duplicate of #14989 (gdal problem, not qgis one). Try the installer linked in #14989.

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• resolution was changed from to duplicate
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed