Mirror of forum.nim-lang.org

13267 :: Unicode/utf-8 reading txt-files

• jomme3000 (orginal) [2025-07-29T01:10:42+02:00] view original

  
  let f = open("file.txt")
  for lines in f.lines:
    if fileExists(path & lines):
      continue
  echo "copying: " & lines
    try:
      copyFileToDir(lines, path)
    except Exception as e:
      echo "-Err!"
  f.close()
  Run

  file contents like: Monne » Genealogie Online

  "»" is the crulpit. Get errors because got this at stdout: "copying: Monne � Genealogie Online" So Nim doesn't find the file.

  If I output the special character directly like this:

  
  echo "Monne » Genealogie Online"
  Run

  stdout prints the character like it should.

  What is the problem? How can I set the characterset?

---

• PMunch (orginal) [2025-07-29T13:55:31+02:00] view original

  First check that your file actually is utf-8 and not something like utf-16. Nim shouldn't have any issue with utf-8 in this case. Then check the actual error you get, it might not be what you expect.

---

• jomme3000 (orginal) [2025-07-30T12:19:09+02:00] view original

  File is in ANSI encoding and Nim is interpreting it as UTF-8(I think) ä becomes èa and » is unrecognizable. So how to set Nim in ansi of reading the file?

---

• Araq (orginal) [2025-07-30T12:28:45+02:00] view original

  Use the encodings.nim stdlib module.

---