Am Sonntag, den 27.03.2011, 23:47 +0200 schrieb Martin Helm: > Am Sonntag, 27. März 2011, 23:32:22 schrieb Thomas Weber: > > Hi, > > > > I'm currently facing a failing test in financial's test suite. The > > problem can be seen with the following call: > > > > wget > > "http://finance.google.com/finance/historical?q=yhoo&startdate=01-Jul-2005&; > > enddate=08-Jul-2005&histperiod=daily&output=csv" > > > > If you redirect the output into a file and use a hexeditor for looking > > at it, you get the following: > > 00000000 ef bb bf 44 61 74 65 2c 4f 70 65 6e 2c 48 69 67 > > |...Date,Open,Hig| > > > > So, Google returns some binary crap at the beginning. When loading this > > .csv data into Octave, the first variable has a length of 7, whereas the > > unit test expects a lenght of 4 - in other words, it's looking for > > "Date", not for crappy "...Date". > > > > BTW, it's actually difficult to see this issue with Octave'pager or vim > > -- they simply show the "Date" string, but Octave happily tells you > > about the length of 7. > > > > So, I'm looking for a good idea here? Does anybody have any contacts at > > Google whom they could ask whether these 3 characters are intentional? > > > > Thomas > > > This is no crap, it is the BOM for utf8 for text files > > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark > To be a bit more exlicit, I do not know if you can augment the query string to export the csv with a special encoding but of course you can change the necoding with iconv (on linux for other OS I do not know what exists). iconv --from-code=UTF-8 --to-code=ISO-8859-1 myoriginalfile.txt > mynewfile.txt
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