topic Re: Strange characters in attribute table in ArcMap Questions

Strange characters in attribute table

IB3 — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:21:00 GMT

Hi,

I just added a shapefile to Arcmap which was previously created in QGIS. I get strange characters instead of text. (see screen capture)

Does anyone know how I can solve this problem?

Thanks

Isabelle

Re: Strange characters in attribute table

DanPatterson — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:33:31 GMT

codepage of the document? It looks like the language/internationalization settings on your machine differ from those used to create the table. I would check it through qgis since arc* isn't going to be able to fix that

Re: Strange characters in attribute table

JeffHouser — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 17:47:55 GMT

Looks like one of the "wingdings" font...characters represented by symbols? For e.g. the symbol in column1 Row 1, is a folder-symbol, which is 0. The symbol in Column1 Row 11, is a open folder with a close folder, which is 10.

Re: Strange characters in attribute table

RhettZufelt — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:55:46 GMT

I believe Jeff is correct.

If this is all that is going on here, you should be able to select "Appearance" at the bottom of the table dropdown menu, then change the font to Ariel, or some other font with normal characters.

Re: Strange characters in attribute table

IB3 — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 10:20:14 GMT

Hi @RhettZufelt @JeffHouser , I couldn't change it to ariel, but it did work with other character, verdana, times... Thanks!