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Shp files in the generation, there will be a default encoding format, when opening shp, the encoding format and software do not correspond to, open shp files, there will be garbled.

In general, arcgis is used to re-export and save shp files, and there is an open source lightweight software that confirms the encoding format of shp and can be saved to other encoding formats.

QGIS is an open source lightweight data processing software that supports data processing in multiple formats.

The specific steps of shp transcoding are as follows:

1. Open the QGIS software and drag the shp file to the window of the file.

2. On the function window on the left, right-click on the layer (such as datagrid) to display the properties window, which contains some basic information of the shp file.

3. Under the tab page of General, you can see the Data source encoding of the layer. The default is System. If you are not sure the encoding of the shp file, you can default to System first.

During the use of shp files, the encoding is generally (UTF-8,GB2312,GBK,Default), and when selected, it is also switched among these encodings.

4, after the selection of coding, close the properties window, right-click on the layer, open Open Attribute Table, you can see the contents of the property sheet, if the property sheet is garbled, repeat the previous step to select the encoding of shp, until the property sheet is not garbled, you can know the encoding of the shp file.

5, to confirm the encoding of the shp file, you can save the shp file, generally saved as the utf-8 character set of the file; right-click the layer, select save as, in the pop-up confirmation window, select Format for Esri shapefile, of course, you can save to other QGIS support format, enter the file name can be saved.

Compared with QGIS, it is lighter and faster to open. It is recommended to use it for some simple data processing.

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