Re: Shift-JIS to UTF-8 conversion

2005-05-23 Thread Jeff Epler
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:16:15AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, I think the answer is basically correct but shift-jis is not a > standard part of Python 2.3. Ah, I was fooled --- I tested on Python 2.3, but my packager must have included the codecs you went on to mention. Jeff pgp4q

Re: Shift-JIS to UTF-8 conversion

2005-05-20 Thread George Yoshida
PyTJ wrote: > I need to convert a Japanese Shift-JIS CSV file to Unicode UTF-8. > > My machine is a Windows 98 english computer with Python 2.3.4 > > Any hints?. > First, you need to install codecs to support japanese encodings. Python 2.3.* does not support SJIS by default. I'll give you two

Re: Shift-JIS to UTF-8 conversion

2005-05-20 Thread rbsharp
Hello, I think the answer is basically correct but shift-jis is not a standard part of Python 2.3. You will either need to use Python 2.4 where the cjkcodes are integrated or install them under Python 2.3. The link is http://cjkpython.i18n.org/ You then also need: import cjkcodecs.aliases Richard

Re: Shift-JIS to UTF-8 conversion

2005-05-19 Thread Jeff Epler
I think you do something like this (untested): import codecs def transcode(infile, outfile, incoding="shift-jis", outcoding="utf-8"): f = codecs.open(infile, "rb", incoding) g = codecs.open(outfile, "wb", outcoding) g.write(f.read()) # If the file is so large that it can't be

Shift-JIS to UTF-8 conversion

2005-05-19 Thread PyTJ
Hello everybody, I need to convert a Japanese Shift-JIS CSV file to Unicode UTF-8. My machine is a Windows 98 english computer with Python 2.3.4 Any hints?. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list