Hi all,
On Apr 26, 2011, at 6:12 AM, Kraus Philipp wrote:
>
> Am 26.04.2011 um 12:52 schrieb Jens Thoms Toerring:
>>> It seems that my code create 2 bytes for the ä, ö, ü, ß and Matlab 1 byte.
>>> Can I switch the encoding in the HDF5 file or can I use unicode or anything
>>> else?
>>
>> Don't know if you can get MatLab to use UTF-8, concerning the
>> HDF5 file the question is how it is written. The program it's
>> written by seems to use UTF-8. Can you change that? If this
>> is a test program with the 'äöüß' hard-coded into it you just
>> may have to get your editor to use ISO-8859-1. Writing to the
>> HDF5 file isn't the point, it just contains what you told it
>> to, the problem is passing in the values you want it to con-
>> tain.
>
> I've tested the code with ISO-8859-1 (change my source code, because the
> chars are hardcoded), than the encoding is correct (C++ & Matlab). But my
> problem I read XML data with utf-8 encoding (some cyrillic chars, etc). I
> would like to write them to the HDF and read them into Matlab. Do you have
> any idea with a correct encoding?
>
> If I read / write the char data in my code, I can set the correct encoding
> representation, but is there an option for saving the encoding into the file,
> because only the char code isn't unique. I can set utf-8, utf-8, ASCII, etc
Would the H5Tset_cset() routine
(http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/RM_H5T.html#Datatype-SetCset) help out
here?
Quincey
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