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Thank you for your reply!

Stripping the first chars is possible of course, but I don't
understand why these chars are there.

It was working before! I could just upload the utf-8 csv and everthing
was working great before. I don't really know what I changed that now
these chars are appearing.

Sebastian

On 1 Jul., 15:12, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 1, 11:48 am, Sebastian <sebastian.go...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > OK,
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> > it was working perfectly when I just made sure that my csv file is in
> > utf-8 encoding format.
>
> > I deleted some of my programm, so I had to write a lot of stuff again.
>
> > If I now upload a csv file which is in utf-8 format and then I have
> > every time in the first row that the first three character are: \xEF
> > \xBBxBF
>
> That's a utf BOM: a magic unicode character that tells whoever is
> reading the stream what endianness is and also allows to tell UTF8
> apart from utf16
> You can safely strip them from the file.
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> > I read that these is something about unicode and ordering, but i don't
> > know where these hex chars come from.
>
> > Also every german special character is also shown in this hex code,
> > e.g. "k\xC3\xBChler" should be "kühler"
>
> That is probably just an output thing if you are seeing this in a
> terminal window- \xC3\xBC is the utf8 sequence for ü
>
> Fred
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> > If I use files in other encodings there are not these three chars in
> > the beginning, but every special char is "?"
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> > Has anyone an idea where this comes from?
>
> > Cheers,
> > Sebastian
>
> > On 22 Jun., 13:26, Sebastian <sebastian.go...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > > file.temp is an object. I have a form where a csv can be uploaded, but
> > > it is never stored. That's why I use tempfile. That means that I
> > > probably have no path to use in that method.
>
> > > BUT, the open and foreach method for the CSV class is working with an
> > > object whenever I don't have a german special character in my csv file
> > > or when my csv file is already in utf-8 encoding format.
>
> > > On 22 Jun., 12:05, Chirag Singhal <chirag.sing...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > What does file.tempfile return?
> > > > If it is a file object, then we have a problem, we need to pass in file path
> > > > here.
> > > > So call path on the file object and pass that as the first argument.

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