Monday, 14 December 2015

encoding - Open Arabic Shapefile in Qgis


I have a shape-file all it's fields are in Arabic. When I opens it in qgis 2.0 all the data is replaced by "?". I changed the encoding to Arabic or UTF-8 but with the same result. How can I Open an Arabic Shapefile in Qgis.



Answer



To be able to see the Arabic names you may proceed like this:


1) Go to Layer > Add Vector Layer


2) Choose the corect Encoding for your layer (Windows-1256, otherwise you'll see artifacts):


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3) Just label your streets with Arabicstre:


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