Accented characters allowed as DBF columns

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Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)
Original Redmine Issue: 15604
Affected QGIS version: 3.0.0
Redmine category:data_provider

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QGIS desktop accepts accented characters as column names for shapefile dbf, and everything seems to work smoothly.
The same files however are not displayed in QGIS sever when that field is used for classification.
I think they should not be allowed anywhere, but if they are, they should work the same in desktop and server.

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Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)

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• subject was changed from Accented charachters allowed as DBF columns to Accented characters allowed as DBF columns

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Author Name: Giovanni Allegri (@giohappy)

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DBF standard defines ISO8859-1 as the default (and theorically the only accepted) encoding. We should guarantee support at least for this encoding...

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• easy_fix was configured as 0
• regression was configured as 0

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Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)

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Still true in QGIS 3

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• version was changed from 2.16.2 to 3.0.0
• description was changed from QGIS desktop accepts accented characters as column names for shapefile dbf, and everything seems to work smoothly.
  The same files however are not displayed in QGIS sever when that field is used for classification.
  I think they should not be allowed anywhere, but if they are, they should work the same in desktop and server. to QGIS desktop accepts accented characters as column names for shapefile dbf, and everything seems to work smoothly.
  The same files however are not displayed in QGIS sever when that field is used for classification.
  I think they should not be allowed anywhere, but if they are, they should work the same in desktop and server.

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Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)

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Duplicate of #21532

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