[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #41326] textread gives unnecessary warning on umlauts

[H. G.]

URL:
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                 Summary: textread gives unnecessary warning on umlauts
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: hardy
            Submitted on: Do 23 Jan 2014 21:13:08 GMT
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Inaccurate Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.8.0
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

This is how to produce the behavior. It happend on the current release 3.8.0.
of octave:

* create a textfile "test.csv" that simply has one umlaut character in it. For
example ü
* use textread to import this into an octave variable: a =
textread('test.csv','%s')
* You will get a warning message "warning: range error for conversion to
character value"
* Also the text will properly be imported. The variable a does contain the
umlaut afterwards.

So I assume that the given warning is unnecesssary. Octave does import umlauts
properly.

Additionally the similar command strread will not give this warning on the
same job. b = strread('ü','%s') just executes without any warning, and the
umlaut is also properly read.




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