[#404] UnicodeDecodeError with windows-1250 shapefile when generating classes

Bram wrote that his code can do it. :)
Jachym, if you can try his branch it would be wonderful.

Here is a simple patch for the actual version before Bram's version will be incorporated in the trunk :

Index: thuban/Thuban/UI/classgen.py
===================================================================
--- thuban/Thuban/UI/classgen.py (revision 2772)
+++ thuban/Thuban/UI/classgen.py (working copy)
@@ -759,7 +759,8 @@
index = 0
for v in list:
self.dataList.append(v)
- i = self.list_avail.InsertStringItem(index, str(v))
+ i = self.list_avail.InsertStringItem(index,
+ str(v).decode('iso-8859-1'))
self.list_avail.SetItemData(index, i)

self.list_avail_data.append(v)

I don't have time to test and commit but will do it after the 31st of may when coming back.

This seems similiar to
[#118] problem with utf8 systems trying to see non utf8 table

You could try one of the patches from there or
check out the WIP-pyshapelib-bramz/ branch which
has new code for opening other encodings.
I think Bram would love feedback if this works with his code. ;)

file added, try the column "HORNINA"

Jachym,
thanks for reporting.
Do you happen to have an example file that you could
publish and attach to this issue?

The problem is that we need some detection for the charset
optimally. For a hack you could add some code around "str(v)" to decode your encoding into unicode.