PyTJ wrote: > I need to convert a Japanese Shift-JIS CSV file to Unicode UTF-8. > > My machine is a Windows 98 english computer with Python 2.3.4 > > Any hints?. >
First, you need to install codecs to support japanese encodings. Python 2.3.* does not support SJIS by default. I'll give you two options. - Japanese Codecs http://www.python.jp/Zope/download/JapaneseCodecs http://ftp.python.jp/pub/JapaneseCodecs/JapaneseCodecs-1.4.10.win32-py2.3.exe - CJKCodecs http://cjkpython.i18n.org/ http://download.berlios.de/cjkpython/cjkcodecs-1.1.win32-py2.3.exe If you only need Japanese support, Japanese Codecs might be handy. On the other hand, CJKCodecs can handle much broader encodings. Aside from that, starting from 2.4, Python ships with CJKCodecs, so I'd recomment CJKCodecs without reservations. -- george -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
