[melbourne-pug] Unicode for windows dummies

[Mike Dewhirst]

On 16/08/2016 5:36 PM, William ML Leslie wrote:
> ​What does something like this do for you?​

Before responding here is something which I think spells curtains for my 
Windows laptop.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/878972/windows-cmd-encoding-change-causes-python-crash

I had a look at the csf file and it had somehow converted itself to 
utf-16. I suppose it was me but I didn't notice. I do remember saving as 
a few different encodings and I must have forgotten. It is now 
definitely utf-8 and shall remain so.

I'll be back

M



>
>     with open(csvfile, "r", encoding='utf-16') as csv:
>
>     Â Â Â  self.rows = csv.readlines()
>
>     Â Â Â  for
>     ​i, ​
>     line in
>     ​enumerate(​
>     self.rows
>     ​)​
>     :
>
>     Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  cells = line.split(",")
>
>     Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  if i >= start:
>
>     Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  print(', '.join(cells)
>     ​.encode('cp1252', 'replace').decode('cp1252')​
>     )
>
>     Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  if i > finish:
>
>     Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  break
>
>
>
> -- 
> William Leslie
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