Docutils: Documentation Utilities / Bugs / #249 Using a unicode character as quote in a CSV table fails

#249 Using a unicode character as quote in a CSV table fails

Status: closed-wont-fix

Owner: nobody

Labels: None

Priority: 5

Updated: 2020-03-03

Created: 2014-03-11

Creator: flying sheep

Private: No

…because it gets encoded to a multiple-byte bytestring.

only occurs on python2 afaik, and idk id it’s fixable without using a different CSV reader module.

test case:

.. csv-table:: foo
    :quote: ·

    irrelevant

Discussion

Günter Milde - 2014-03-20

status: open --> closed-wont-fix
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Günter Milde - 2014-03-20

Thank you for the report.

Fixing this for Python 2 would require ugly hacks and workarounds.
The limitation is now documented and the error-reoporting improved.

Users intending to use non-ASCII quote, delimiter, or escape characters for CSV-tables are advised to switch to Python 3.

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flying sheep - 2014-03-20

users like github :)

i’ll continue to bug them, then.

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