Re: Character encodings issue with phrase_from_file

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Warren Wilkinson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Too long didn't read:  My input file has ascii \223 and \224.  If I take
> them out, phrase_from_file succeeds. If I leave them in, it fails.  What
> can I do?

If you read the docs for phrase_from_file, you see that there is a
phrase_from_file/2 and a phrase_from_file/3.
This second predicate takes an additional 'Options' argument.  One of
these optional arguments is an encoding specification.  You must pass
the correct encoding.

The page for the file says: "This file contains the SR25 data in ASCII
(ISO/IEC 8859-1)", which is a contradiction. :)

Let's assume the file actually is 8859-1 (aka latin-1), and not ASCII,
so pass the options [encoding(iso_latin_1)] to phrase_from_file/3.

Hope this works.

P.