(Lianja) Read Japanese utf-8 CSV File

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

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// 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"
// 

loCsv = createobject("CkCsv")

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

// 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.
llSuccess = loCsv.LoadFile2("qa_data/csv/japanese.csv","utf-8")
if (llSuccess <> .T.) then
    ? loCsv.LastErrorText
    release loCsv
    return
endif

// Display the contents of the 3rd column

n = loCsv.NumRows
for row = 0 to n - 1
    ? loCsv.GetCell(lnRow,2)
next


release loCsv