Re: [Docutils-users] Encoding-Error in CSV-Data

[David G. <go...@py...>]

[Link, Michael (ESA)]
 > I'm using the handy csv-table directive. A look in the code revealed
 > that you use the csv-package of Python 2.3. Now it seems that I have
 > a encoding error somewhere in my csv data

In fact, a look at the Python Library Reference reveals this:

     Note: This version of the csv module doesn't support Unicode
     input.

Both Felix and I came up with the same workaround, which encodes the
data as UTF-8, sends it to the CSV parser, then decodes the UTF-8 back
to Unicode.  It ought to work.

 > and I want to suppress it with
 >
 > --output-encoding-error-handler=replace

If there's still a problem with your data, that won't help, because
you need to check the *input*.  I've added an
--input-encoding-error-handler command-line option, as well as an
":encoding:" directive option for "csv-table" ("include" and "raw"
directives too).  These should help.  The external file encoding
defaults to the document's encoding.  The directive uses the session's
error handler (I didn't see much point in allowing separate settings).

-- 
David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>