Tuesday 18 November 2014

Export Shape files from ArcCatalog in UTF-8 encoding

When you Export feature class which contain Arabic Texts to shape file the Arabic texts appears as "??????????", to avoid this problem and to get the correct conversion follow the following steps and see the screenshots


  1. Open regedit from Search in Win8/grater or from run in win7/less
  2. go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\Desktop10.2
  3. If there is no key named "Common" create it and create a new key inside it as "CodePage"
  4. Create a new String Value and name it "dbfDefault" 
  5. Put "UTF-8" value of the Value Data 
Enjoy 




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