turicas/rows

Autodetect encoding from CSV files

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#129 opened on Oct 20, 2015

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We are using rows in https://github.com/interlegis/interlegis.portalmodelo.transparency to import generic CSV files that users upload, but sometimes the tools used to generate the CSV are not pattern like and generates data with alien encondings, like MS Excel. We need to autodetec the encoding used in the files maybe using some lib as 'chardet' or the 'file' Linux command.

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Use chardet or similar library to detect encoding of CSV files before parsing.
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python
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data
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