Control the Encoding of the Attribute File
- Last UpdatedJan 05, 2026
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ENCODING |
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Description: |
This command sets the character encoding for the Attribute File. The default is Latin-1. |
Examples:
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ENCODING ASCII |
Write only 7-bit ASCII characters to the attribute file. |
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ENCODING LATIN1 |
Write "Western European" characters in ISO/IEC 8859-1 encoding (this is the default). |
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ENCODING UTF8 |
Write characters in the UTF-8 encoding, adding a byte-order-mark at the start of the file. |
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ENCODING UTF8 NOBOM |
Write characters in UTF-8, but do not write a byte-order mark at the start of the file. |