[R-sig-Geo] readOGR and nonASCII character

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Agustin Lobo wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> Is there any way to get readOGR() to correctly read
> non-ascii character strings from the dbf file? I've
> checked and my dbf file correctly displays
> names with accents, but once read into R
> accents are substituted by wrong symbols.

We are dependent on what GDAL/OGR gives us here. Please try the equivalent 
function in maptools for your shapefile, and see whether the read.dbf() in 
foreign does any better. I'm assuming that you know the locale settings of 
your platform, and of the originating platform from sessionInfo()?

Roger

>
> Agus
>
>

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