SPIT crashes if path to shapefile contains cyrillic

[dr]

SPIT crashes if path to shapefile contains cyrillic, for example: "d:\шейп\".

[dr]

Also crashes when cyryllic contains in filename;
If filename contains symbol "-" SPIT returns error message.

[pcav]

Does it work with PostGIS Manager plugin?

[dr]

With PostGIS Manager QGIS produces an error:

An error has occured while executing Python code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator/.qgis/python/plugins\postgis_manager\DlgLoadData.py", line 153, in onLoad
    res, err = self.load_data_win(out, args)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator/.qgis/python/plugins\postgis_manager\DlgLoadData.py", line 227, in load_data_win
    p = os.popen3(cmdline)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 55-57: ordinal not in range(128)

[jef]

Replying to dr:

SPIT crashes if path to shapefile contains cyrillic, for example: "d:\шейп\".

No crash reproducable here. QGIS refuses to add files in cyrillic directories on Windows, because OGROpen fails on them. This is a known GDAL/OGR problem: [ rfc5_unicode].

I suppose this should be fixed in OGR. See also the thread [ adding encoding file] on the developer's mailing list.

[rouault]

I'd note that since GDAL 1.8.0, this should now work after the work done in  RFC30 (a more focused version of RFC 5), provided that QGIS passes UTF-8 filenames to GDALOpen() / OGROpen()

[dr]

If path to file contains Cyrillic symbol SPIT throws an error:

The following Shapefile(s) could not be loaded:

C:/personal/geo/рельеф/sfo.shp
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
REASON: File cannot be opened

[jef]

Replying to rouault:

I'd note that since GDAL 1.8.0, this should now work after the work done in  RFC30 (a more focused version of RFC 5), provided that QGIS passes UTF-8 filenames to GDALOpen() / OGROpen()

Thanks. Missed that one. Support for UTF8 in GDAL/OGR 1.8 added in r15148.

[dr]

SPIT still crashes if path contains cyrillic, r15154

[jef]

should be fixed in r15156.

[dr]

Works for me now.