DBF encoding and cyrillic values

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Author Name: Igor Glushkov (Igor Glushkov)
Original Redmine Issue: 5508
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:data_provider

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I have a problems with cyrillic symbols after upgrade QGIS (by OSGeo4W)
First, no longer work correctly setting of the encoding in the file opening dialog(with no error or warnings message, layer opened only in UTF-8)
Second, when create a new shapefile (in windows-1251 encoding -see appl.)cyrillic symbols just do not display correctly too.

Creating of .cpg file working correctly only for UTF-8.

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• windows1251.7z (Igor Glushkov)

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Related issue(s): #15349 (relates), #15355 (relates)
Redmine related issue(s): 5900, 5911

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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does now seems a QGIS problem but a gdal/ogr 1.9 one, see here

http://ssrebelious.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/qgis-and-gdal1-9-encoding-issue-a-workaround/

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• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

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Author Name: Alexander Bruy (@alexbruy)

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Duplicate #14989

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

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Author Name: Alexander Bruy (@alexbruy)

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• category_id was changed from Vectors to Data Provider
• os_version was changed from 7 to
• operating_system was changed from Windows to all

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Author Name: Igor Glushkov (Igor Glushkov)

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Thanks, Giovanni
I knew about this issues, but problem stay unsolved because: 1) .cpg not working correctly under Windows with "windows-1251" 2) OSGeo4W does't allow downgrade to GDAL1.8
May be you know some way to downgrade GDAl for Windows user without compiling?

I 'm use OpenOffic.Calc for correctly encode .dbf (open/save with "windows-1251")