Alois Schloegl

An (unlicensed) implementation with source code has been published here https://github.com/janbrogger/CwellEEGRead

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Replace invalid UTF8 characters with replacement character

Thanks for the example, I see now what the problem is. I've accepted your patches. However, renamed the function to jsonheader(), and kept header() for backwards compatiblity. You can check demo2.py how to use it. Thanks for your contribution .

I see. That explains a little more. I checked the CFS specfication, and it does not indicate which locale string encoding is used. Is it always latin-1 or can it be some other string encoding ? Do you know which software was used to produce that file ? Based on your description, your new suggestion do not seem to be the "right" solution. Please provide the data, and the script. You can upload these here https://seafile.ist.ac.at/u/d/dbb0ca54e965484aad19/ Then, we can see what to do about this.

Lukas, thanks for your submission. I reviewed your suggestion. 1) according to the documentation [1], the function PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() ",,,Create a Unicode object by decoding size bytes of the UTF-8 encoded string str..." that is the opposite of what you describe . https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/unicode.html#c.PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8 I'm afraid that your changes might break other platforms. 2) I can not reproduce the problem. I renamed a valid file such that its name contains umlaut, and the current...

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Dear Freya, I believe I provided a fair and balanced assessment what the method can and can not provide. Whether this is "convincing", or in other words good enough for your purpose, is not up to me to decide.