New Post: Arabic characters problem

Hi all,

I am trying to open a shapefile that is located in a directory named in Arabic characters but i could not
e.g: myShpFile.open(@"c:\مجلدجديد\shape1.shp");

maybe because MapWinGIS doesnt support Arabic language it didn't recognize the path containing Arabic characters ,but if this is the reason ,why it works fine when I open images within the same directory !!

it works for

MapWinGIS.Image newImage = new MapWinGIS.Image();
newImage.Open(@"c:\مجلد جديد\map1.tif", MapWinGIS.ImageType.USE_FILE_EXTENSION, false, null);

but it dosnt work for the shapefile

Shapefile sf1 = new Shapefile();
if (sf1.Open(@"c:\مجلد جديد\worldAdmin.shp", null))
{

}
else
MessageBox.Show(sf1.get_ErrorMsg(sf1.LastErrorCode));//Couldn't open .shp file

and it shows this message "Couldn't open .shp file"

2 weeks ago I tried to insert and retrieve values (with Arabic characters) from the shapefile table but i was getting ????? instead of the real string.
i solved it by encoding the string like this :-

//for retrieving string in Arabic Lang
//i.e getDecodedStr(shapeFile.get_CellValue(fieldID, index).ToString());
public static string getDecodedStr(string str)
        {
            byte[] _Bytes= System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).GetBytes(str);
            return System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1256).GetString(_Bytes);
        }

//and this if it is arabic and utf-8
public static string getDecodedStr2(string str)
        {
            byte[] _Bytes= System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).GetBytes(str);
            return System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(65001).GetString(_Bytes);
        }

//for inserting
//i.e, shapeFile.Table.EditCellValue(fieldID, shapeID, getEncodedStr("الاسم"));
public static string getEncodedStr(string str)
        {
            byte[] _Bytes= System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1256).GetBytes(str);
            return System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).GetString(_Bytes);
        }

i know its not the best way but it works

I mentioned this encoding thing just to tell that even I tried to encode the path of the shapefile with several encondings but it also couldnt open

so if there is a way to fix that i will be glad