I echo Bas here. The only issue I've ever had is when writing to or reading from files. You have to specify the encoding.
Jade On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Cynthia Kiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 2, 2008, at 5:42 PM, Bas Scheffers wrote: > > > > > The only issues I ever faced was (CSV) file uploads, where the data > > needed to be extracted and put into the database. This could contain any > > encoding without me knowing. In practice it only ever contained stupid > > Windows encoding, so I assumed that to be the case and used Tcl's convert > > functions. > > > > Hmmmm CSV + "stupid Windows encoding". Bas perhaps you have just what I > need for a character set issue. I have a data file - actually delimited by > upsidedown exclamation points, not commas. It comes from a Windows box - > apparently with the Windows 1252 character set. I am trying to load that > data into Oracle. I was trying to use SQLLDR to do that but am having > debugging issues. I *think* I have the correct character set info and octal > representation for ¡. But something is funky. > > It never occurred to me to try parsing this with Tcl instead. Is there an > AOLserver or straight Tcl module I should be using to parse pseudo-CSV? Or > is the answer keep it simple and just read lines and split on ¡ with > 'split'? > > > > -- > AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ > > To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the > body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the > Subject: field of your email blank. > -- Jade Rubick Acting Chief Technology Officer United eWay [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel (503)285-4963 fax (707)671-1333 www.UNITEDeWAY.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
