[Tutor] read in text file containing non-English characters

[Marc Tompkins]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Francis P. Boscoe <fpb01 at health.state.ny.us
> wrote:

> Given a simple text file of departments, capitals, longitude and latitude
> separated by commas
>
> Ahuachapán,Ahuachapán,-89.8450,13.9190
> Cabañas,Sensuntepeque,-88.6300,13.8800
> Cuscatlán,Cojutepeque,-88.9333,13.7167
>
> I would like to know to how to read in the file and then access arbitary
> rows in the file, so that I can print a line such as:
>
> The capital of Cabañas is Sensuntepeque
>
> while preserving the non-English characters
>
> now, for example, I get
>
> Cabañas
>
>
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you're not yet
comfortable with Unicode. It's all right - we've all been there, and
sometimes I still wake up in a cold sweat thinking about it - but you owe
it to yourself to get at least a bit more comfortable with encodings,
character sets, etc.
Joel Spolsky - Joel on Software - wrote a pretty good intro a few years
ago.  It's geared toward HTML, but the concepts are the same regardless of
language.  It's a fun read, and informative - I recommend
it.<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/12/oracle_netra_t4_timesten/>
www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
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