[Gretl-devel] Re: silent failure of string functions with non-UTF8 encoding (Windows codepage)
Am 22.07.2021 um 19:56 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Thu, 22 Jul 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> with a July 7th snapshot I experienced messed-up results from working
> with hansl string functions, where the textual input comes from a text
> file with non-ASCII stuff (German Umlaute), and the file used the
> Windows codepage.
There was a little bug in readfile that prevented recoding from
working as intended, now fixed in git.
Thanks!
However, if you know how a text file is encoded, and it's not
UTF-8,
you can use the second argument to readfile, as in
string s = readfile("umlauts.txt", "cp1250")
Right, wasn't fully aware of that. But in my case I only got alerted to
the encoding through the unintended bug above, didn't really know it before.
For good measure I've added a recode() function in git (just exposes
GLib functionality). So you can now do, e.g.,
string s = recode(s, "cp1250", "utf8")
Ok
cheers
sven