[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57304] Error message for non-UTF-8 encoded *.m files

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #57304 (project octave):

Sorry, my bad. "fread" doesn't convert the encoding. It just reads the bytes
as they are stored in the file. (At least this is what Matlab does.)

You could probably use fscanf or fgets/fgetl (still, I couldn't try):

fid = fopen ("angstrom.m", "r", "n", "iso-8859-1");
regexp (fscanf (fid, "%s")), "Hello")
fclose (fid);


Or combine "fread" with "native2unicode" (also works in Octave 5.1):

fid = fopen ("angstrom.m");
regexp (native2unicode (fread (fid).', "iso-8859-1"), "Hello")
fclose (fid);


    _______________________________________________________

Reply to this item at:

  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57304>

_______________________________________________
  Message sent via Savannah
  https://savannah.gnu.org/