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This data comes from an Oracle database and is extracted to flatfiles in encoding ‘WE8MSWIN1252’.
I want to parse the data and do some analysis. I want to see the text fields but do not need to publish the results to any other system so if some characters do not get converted perfectly I do not have a problem with that.
I just do not want my parsing to fail with a decode error which is what I get if I use:
inputFile = codecs.open( dataFileName, “r”, “utf-8′”)
From the last few characters, I’d guess that this encoding is what the rest of the world calls windows-1252. So try: