morewordsplease

Problems importing unicode csv files containing Null

Bug #492863 reported by Steffen Sindzinski
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morewordsplease
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Medium
Steffen Sindzinski

Bug Description

Due to a bug in csv.reader of python version < 3 it is not possible to read csv files containing Null. This could be with Windows files.

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Steffen Sindzinski (stesind) wrote :

porting to python 3 is not useful, because pygtk is currently not available yet

Changed in morewordsplease:
assignee: nobody → Steffen Sindzinski (stesind)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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Steffen Sindzinski (stesind) wrote :

It seems that Windows programs often uses utf16 with Null bytes. Best solution is to save the file as utf-8. This is possible for instance in Langenscheidt Vokabeltrainer.

As another workaround you could import the file in openoffice.org calc and save it as csv. Then import it using e.g the iso8859_2 encoding.

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