Encodings¶

Dixer supports read and set encoding of connection types csv, json, xml, ragged-right and fixed-width using the encoding or encoding_var keys.

The supported encodings are:

• UTF-8: It's the default, you can leave in blank the encoding and encoding_var keys if you want.
• UTF-16: UTF-16 with BOM
• UTF-16LE: UTF-16 Little-Endian without BOM
• UTF-16BE: UTF-16 Big-Endian without BOM
• IBM037: IBM Code Page 037
• IBM437: IBM Code Page 437
• IBM850: IBM Code Page 850
• IBM852: IBM Code Page 852
• IBM855: IBM Code Page 855
• IBM00858: Windows Code Page 858
• IBM860: IBM Code Page 860
• IBM862: IBM Code Page 862
• IBM863: IBM Code Page 863
• IBM865: IBM Code Page 865
• IBM866: IBM Code Page 866
• IBM1047: IBM Code Page 1047
• IBM1140: IBM Code Page 1140
• ISO-8859-1: ISOLatin1
• ISO-8859-2: ISOLatin2
• ISO-8859-3: ISOLatin3
• ISO-8859-4: ISOLatin4
• ISO-8859-5: ISOLatinCyrillic
• ISO-8859-6: ISOLatinArabic
• ISO-8859-6-E: ISOLatinArabic explicit mode
• ISO-8859-6-I: ISOLatinArabic implicit mode
• ISO-8859-7: ISOLatinGreek
• ISO-8859-8: ISOLatinHebrew
• ISO-8859-8-E: ISOLatinHebrew explicit mode
• ISO-8859-8-I: ISOLatinHebrew implicit mode
• ISO-8859-9: ISOLatin5
• ISO-8859-10: ISOLatin6
• ISO-8859-13
• ISO-8859-14
• ISO-8859-15
• ISO-8859-16
• KOI8-R
• KOI8-U
• macintosh
• x-mac-cyrillic
• windows-874
• windows-1250
• windows-1251
• windows-1252
• windows-1253
• windows-1254
• windows-1255
• windows-1256
• windows-1257
• windows-1258

How encoding works?¶

Dixer works internally with UTF-8, so when a encoding is specified to a file, if is a source, Dixer transform supported characters in file to UTF-8, and for writing, transform the UTF-8 to speficied encoding. If a character doesn't match this will be ignored, for example, if you are writing a file in ISO-8859-13 and some column value is español then the output result in destination file is espaol.