[R-sig-Geo] readOGR and writeOGR: encoding?

[Agustin Lobo]

Thanks!

The problem is that only UTF-8 and latin1 area available , but for cases in
which encoding of the dbf is different (i.e. IBM850 or Western Europe 
(DOS/OS2-850/International
as recognized by OpenOffice in the case I'm dealing with now) I can read 
in QGIS and write with QGIS
as UTF8 or latin1.

Agus

Roland Kaiser wrote:
> You can try something like this
>
> shp <- readOGR()
> df <- apply(shp at data, 2, as.character) # if 
> options("stringsAsFactors") is TRUE
> Encoding(df) <- "latin1"
> shp at data <- as.data.frame(df)
>
> Roland
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Is there any way to read the dbf of shp files that contain
>> non-ascii characters? I've tried with encoding="UTF-8"
>> or latin3 as for scan, but this argument does not exist for
>> readOGR (or writeOGR)
>>
>> Agus
>>
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