topic Is posisble to create a shapefile with an specific encoding using ArcObjects? in ArcObjects SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/is-posisble-to-create-a-shapefile-with-an-specific/m-p/164826#M4284 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have the code to create a shapefile programmatically, something like this <A href="http://support.esri.com/fr/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/28310" title="http://support.esri.com/fr/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/28310">28310 - Create a new empty shapefile programmatically</A> </P><P>more over I am able to put the data from a layer in it.</P><P></P><P>It works perfectly.</P><P></P><P>Some client hands to me several layers that have data in Russian. When I export from my application to a shp file I got the same behavior described here <A href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/1461/character-encoding-support-in-geodatabases-and-shapefiles" title="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/1461/character-encoding-support-in-geodatabases-and-shapefiles">esri - Character encoding support in geodatabases and shapefiles - Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange</A> .</P><P>the fields with Cyrillic alphabet appears like ???????? .</P><P></P><P>I found this article: <A href="http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/21106" title="http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/21106">21106 - Read and write shapefile and dBASE files encoded in various code pages</A>&nbsp; but it does not apply to ArcEngine (arcObjects) .</P><P></P><P>Is there a way to change the codification when I'm creating the shp file using the workspace provided by the shapefileworkspacefactory?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 22 Oct 2015 20:52:49 GMT Cristian_Galindo 2015-10-22T20:52:49Z Is posisble to create a shapefile with an specific encoding using ArcObjects? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/is-posisble-to-create-a-shapefile-with-an-specific/m-p/164826#M4284 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have the code to create a shapefile programmatically, something like this <A href="http://support.esri.com/fr/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/28310" title="http://support.esri.com/fr/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/28310">28310 - Create a new empty shapefile programmatically</A> </P><P>more over I am able to put the data from a layer in it.</P><P></P><P>It works perfectly.</P><P></P><P>Some client hands to me several layers that have data in Russian. When I export from my application to a shp file I got the same behavior described here <A href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/1461/character-encoding-support-in-geodatabases-and-shapefiles" title="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/1461/character-encoding-support-in-geodatabases-and-shapefiles">esri - Character encoding support in geodatabases and shapefiles - Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange</A> .</P><P>the fields with Cyrillic alphabet appears like ???????? .</P><P></P><P>I found this article: <A href="http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/21106" title="http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/21106">21106 - Read and write shapefile and dBASE files encoded in various code pages</A>&nbsp; but it does not apply to ArcEngine (arcObjects) .</P><P></P><P>Is there a way to change the codification when I'm creating the shp file using the workspace provided by the shapefileworkspacefactory?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 22 Oct 2015 20:52:49 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/is-posisble-to-create-a-shapefile-with-an-specific/m-p/164826#M4284 Cristian_Galindo 2015-10-22T20:52:49Z Re: Is posisble to create a shapefile with an specific encoding using ArcObjects? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/is-posisble-to-create-a-shapefile-with-an-specific/m-p/164827#M4285 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Have you considered writing your data to a personal or file geodatabase instead of a Shapefile? One of the <EM>many</EM> benefits of a GeoDatabase over a shapefile is that they support Unicode and would display Cyrillic.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 06 Dec 2015 01:10:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/is-posisble-to-create-a-shapefile-with-an-specific/m-p/164827#M4285 DuncanHornby 2015-12-06T01:10:23Z