(Visual FoxPro) Read Japanese utf-8 CSV File

Demonstrates how to read a utf-8 .csv file containing some Japanese characters.

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LOCAL loCsv
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL lnRow
LOCAL n

* This example program loads a file (japanese.csv)
* that contains this content:
* 
* year,color,country,food
* 2001,red,France,cheese
* 2005,blue,"United States",hamburger
* 2008,green,Italy,pasta
* 1998,orange,Japan,sushi
* 2010,silver,"太志","森田"
* 

* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.Csv')
loCsv = CreateObject('Chilkat.Csv')

* Prior to loading the CSV file, indicate that the 1st row
* should be treated as column names:
loCsv.HasColumnNames = 1

* Load the CSV records from the file.
* Important: Make sure to call LoadFile2 so that the charset (utf-8)
* of the CSV file can be indicated.
lnSuccess = loCsv.LoadFile2("qa_data/csv/japanese.csv","utf-8")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loCsv.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loCsv
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Display the contents of the 3rd column

n = loCsv.NumRows
FOR lnRow = 0 TO n - 1
    ? loCsv.GetCell(lnRow,2)
NEXT

RELEASE loCsv