Handling of special characters

[Pasquale Di Donato]

Dear all,

this is really a nice tool and easy to use.

Just one issue on my side: how to get special characters rightly encoded?

E.g. in my source.csv I have German and French strings such as Altbüron or Câbles. This are encoded as:

C槆les

Altb├╝ron

Any hint?

Thanks

[Richard Cyganiak]

Hi Pasquale,

Tarql attempts to guess the character encoding. This doesn’t always work.

You can specify the correct character encoding yourself with the --encoding argument. The most common values are utf-8, iso-8859-1, and the various windows-12XX encodings (see https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/intl/encoding.doc.html for a list).

If none of the common encodings seem to work, then also consider the possibility that the characters are not correctly encoded in the original file. Does it open correctly in other tools such as Excel?

Richard

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[Pasquale Di Donato]

Hi Richard,

many thanks for the quick answer. I'll give it a try. File opens correctly in excel or in a text editor.

Now fighting against Virtuoso. It doesn't like something. Trying to understand what is wrong (according to Virtuoso) with the triples.

Thanks again

Pasquale 

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Richard Cyganiak <ric...@cyganiak.de> wrote:

Hi Pasquale,

Tarql attempts to guess the character encoding. This doesn’t always work.

You can specify the correct character encoding yourself with the --encoding argument. The most common values are utf-8, iso-8859-1, and the various windows-12XX encodings (see https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/intl/encoding.doc.html for a list).

If none of the common encodings seem to work, then also consider the possibility that the characters are not correctly encoded in the original file. Does it open correctly in other tools such as Excel?

Richard

On 28 Sep 2017, at 11:49, Pasquale Di Donato <pasquale...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all,

this is really a nice tool and easy to use.

Just one issue on my side: how to get special characters rightly encoded?

E.g. in my source.csv I have German and French strings such as Altbüron or Câbles. This are encoded as:

C槆les

Altb├╝ron

Any hint?

Thanks

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