From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-12-02T04:00:17+09:00
Subject: Re: FasterCSV parsing issues

On Dec 1, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Jeremy Woertink wrote:

> I'm using FasterCSV to do an import into my DB, and the CSV file
> contains European words. I have French, Italian, and German words which
> contain accents and such. When I try the import it throws a
> FasterCSV::MalformedCSV error, but if I remove just the letters with
> accents on them, it will upload just fine.

> The CSV file could be created by
> any number of people in any number of different locations using any
> number of programs. Do I need to do something like use Iconv to convert
> to a standard encoding first, then upload?

Yes, that's exactly the strategy you need to adopt.

James Edward Gray II