basic question about text file encodings
Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Thu Apr 16 12:22:39 PDT 2015
What is the best way to figure out and then decode a file of
unknown coding to dchar?
2½% Index-linked Treasury Stock
2016,GB0009075325,26-Jul-2016,28-Feb-2014,8
month,337.810000,338.577874,0.76787400,-1.953546,2.37
Eg I am not sure what encoding the 1/2 is in above, but treating
it as utf8 leads to an exception.
I will post the answer to the wiki, as it's the typical kind of
thing that stumps a newcomer to the language.
I can see how to figure out a guess at the file format from
Tango, but what do I do with the bytes from std.file.read once I
have guessed the encoding?
And more generally shouldn't we have an easy solution in Phobos
for this common problem (presuming I am not just overlooking what
is there?)
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