Hi there monks

The last couple of days I've been playing around with Text::CSV_XS to import some csv data. Which goes quite well up to the point where I encounter special characters.

I've made myself a test file: 

Naam,Adres,Woonplaats
Peter,Liër,ôlsten

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and try to parse that with the following code: 
#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Text::CSV_XS qw( csv );
use Data::Dumper;

my @rows;


open my $FH, "<", "./test2.csv" or die "./test.csv $!";

my $aoh = csv( in => $FH,
               headers => 'auto'
             );

close $FH;

print Dumper($aoh);

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which results in the following output: 
$VAR1 = [
          {
            'Woonplaats' => "\x{f4}lsten",
            'Adres' => "Li\x{eb}r",
            'Naam' => 'Peter'
          }
        ];

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I tried to resolv this by putting an encoding on the file open like "<:encoding(UTF-8)" or by adding "encoding => 'UTF-8' to the csv parameters. Neither have the desired effect.

Perhaps a complete new problem, allthough I think it has something to do with it: The stream I need to parse (originally) has some jibbrish at the start. I think that is a BOM. So I tried to put "detect_bom => 1" to the csv parameters as the man pages suggests. This results in an error: 

# CSV_XS ERROR: 1000 - INI - Unknown attribute 'detect_bom' @ rec 0 po
+s 0
INI - Unknown attribute 'detect_bom' at ./parse.pl line 12.

shell returned 25

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Could anyone shine a light on this for me?

Peter

In reply to Text::CSV_XS and encoding by PeterKaagman

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