Sorry again - nope hadn't given UTF-8 any thought.

Matthew

On 14/09/13 20:57, Harish wrote:
Does fread() support UTF-8? I got a text file that is mostly Latin-1 characters but encoded as UTF-8. When I load the data, the first column name has a few extra characters in the beginning ("id"), but I do not get this when I convert the same file to ANSI format using Windows Notepad.

I am guessing that UTF-8 encoding puts a few extra characters in the beginning of the text file to indicate that it is an UTF-8 encoding, and fread() is reading that literally as the first column name.

Thanks for the clarification.

Regards,
Harish


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