Skip Montanaro wrote: > Fredrik> does the CSV format even support Unicode-encoded data streams? > > Based on the requests I've seen here and on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing > list, > it appears people are certainly generating CSV files which contain Unicode- > encoded data.
in what encodings? is the encoding specified inside the file? if so, how? (it should be noted that the phrase "Unicode-encoded data" that I used doesn't make much sense, even in the original context. what I meant to say was that CSV, as far as I know, isn't defined as a stream of Unicode character, but rather as a stream of bytes in an ASCII-compatible encoding. this means that you can use e.g. ISO- 8859-1 or UTF-8 for string values, but not that you can encode the whole thing as, say UTF-16 or UCS-4). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
