RE: [pilot-db-list] the -extended mode problem

[hermann g. <hgr...@gm...>]

hi Yeshiah, hi 2 all the rest ;-)


the extended mode isn't for support of extended chars, it is the mode=20
for supporting the extended csv mode, an extract of the file=20
manual.txt:

<cut>
The extended CSV mode is similar to the normal CSV mode in that you=20
separate each field using commas and you can use double quotes to=20
protect commas from being interpreted as the field separator.=20
However, the difference comes in when you want to add a double quote=20
into the field. Under the extended CSV mode, you need to preface the=20
quote mark with a backslash (\) like this:
</cut>

btw, i'm using german extended chars (=E4 =F6 =FC =C4 =D6 =DC and =DF), =
only two of=20
them are converted wrong,  the =F6 (\xf6) and =C4 (\xc4), the others are =

all right.

it's freeware, be patient ;-)

so long, ciao hermann


-----Original Message-----
From:	Yeshiah Zalman [SMTP:ye...@ea...]
Sent:	Tuesday, October 15, 2002 10:43 PM
To:	pil...@li...
Subject:	[pilot-db-list] the -extended mode problem

I have a database which uses high-ascii greek.
When I used pdb2csv to convert it to csv, I get
one of 2 problems depending on how I convert.

If I dont use the -e switch for extended chars I get 10%
of the data. The rest is cut off.

If I DO use the -extended mode... I get the whole
file converted but all geek chars are \xblah\xblah

Neither of these are good outputs. What am I missing here.

Yeshiah