Reading ASCII file with some codes above 127 (exten ascii)

[Graham Fawcett]

On Sunday, 13 May 2012 at 21:03:45 UTC, Paul wrote:
> I am reading a file that has a few extended ASCII codes (e.g. 
> degree symdol). Depending on how I read the file in and what I 
> do with it the error shows up at different points.  I'm pretty 
> sure it all boils down to the these extended ascii codes.
>
> Can I just tell dmd that I'm reading a Latin1 or ISO 8859-1 
> file?
>  I've messed with the std.encoding module but really can't 
> figure out what I need to do.
>
> There must be a simple solution to this.

This seems to work:


import std.stdio, std.file, std.encoding;

void main()
{
     auto latin = cast(Latin1String) read("/tmp/hi.8859");
     string s;
     transcode(latin, s);
     writeln(s);
}


Graham