qgis/QGIS — pull request #1498 by minorua (2014-07-05 04:57:03+00:00)
Title: [processing] JoinAttributes improvement

This commit will improve the JoinAttributes algorithm.
- Allows join not only with vector attribute table but also with geometryless table. Provides a way to join table without field name prefix.
- Improves performance by caching the records of join table.
- Avoids join failures due to the data type difference by comparing keys as unicode string.
- Fixes UnicodeEncodeError that occurs if key field name includes non-ASCII characters.