Shift-JIS to UTF-8 conversion

[George Yoshida]

PyTJ wrote:

> I need to convert a Japanese Shift-JIS CSV file to Unicode UTF-8.
> 
> My machine is a Windows 98 english computer with Python 2.3.4
> 
> Any hints?.
> 

First, you need to install codecs to support japanese encodings.
Python 2.3.* does not support SJIS by default.

I'll give you two options.

- Japanese Codecs
   http://www.python.jp/Zope/download/JapaneseCodecs
 
http://ftp.python.jp/pub/JapaneseCodecs/JapaneseCodecs-1.4.10.win32-py2.3.exe

- CJKCodecs
   http://cjkpython.i18n.org/
   http://download.berlios.de/cjkpython/cjkcodecs-1.1.win32-py2.3.exe

If you only need Japanese support, Japanese Codecs might be handy.
On the other hand, CJKCodecs can handle much broader encodings.
Aside from that, starting from 2.4, Python ships with CJKCodecs,
so I'd recomment CJKCodecs without reservations.

-- george