charset dialog window

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Author Name: Tobias Wendorff (Tobias Wendorff)
Original Redmine Issue: 18782

Redmine category:data_source_manager

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QGIS parses shapefiles with or without a CPG file to UTF-8 by default.
You can override this manually, but this often leads to trouble because staff is not always aware of this problem.

I've often seen statt loading ISO-8859-1 coded DBFs in QGIS. QGIS parses it as UTF-8 and when edits are done, things get messed up.
This results in ISO-8859-1 (loaded as UTF-8) and UTF-8 mixed entries, which get saved as UTF-8.

Is it possible to add some kind of dialog with asks for the charset, if no CPG file is available? Perhaps with a small preview window of characters making trouble. A dialog windows, like it's used for SRS/CRS ... even Microsoft Excel has such a dialog window :)

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Related issue(s): #21264 (relates)
Redmine related issue(s): 13203

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[qgib]

Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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• relates was configured as When opening Shapefile the .cpg file is ignored in Windows 8.1 #21264