(PHP ActiveX) Read Japanese utf-8 CSV File

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

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Note: The php_com_dotnet.dll may need to be enabled inside of php.ini.

<?php

// 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 new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.Csv')
$csv = new COM("Chilkat.Csv");

// Prior to loading the CSV file, indicate that the 1st row
// should be treated as column names:
$csv->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.
$success = $csv->LoadFile2('qa_data/csv/japanese.csv','utf-8');
if ($success != 1) {
    print $csv->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Display the contents of the 3rd column

$n = $csv->NumRows;
for ($row = 0; $row <= $n - 1; $row++) {
    print $csv->getCell($row,2) . "\n";
}


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