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Convert "application/octet-stream; charset=binary" to ASCII
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S767 commented Sep 11, 2017

awesome. it's works

@sajjadintel
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woo thanks

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wmmxk commented Apr 6, 2019

Awesome. It works. I downloaded a csv file from a database and I got all NA when I read it to python using pandas.read_csv function.

After I check the datatype of the file using this command: file -i , and found it is charset=binary but not ascii.

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wmmxk commented Apr 6, 2019 •
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It turned out this command fails at some files. Do you have ideas about why it works on some files and fails at others?

@hheisego
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thanks man, is working for me... just stills giving some trash the output but almost all i need is there

@cloudwithankit
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i tried above and then ran $ file -bi file.out , still see "application/octet-stream; charset=binary" , please help

@RPGillespie6
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Doesn't work for me: tr -d \0 : command not found

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I am trying to load some files from (on ubuntu20.04)

Data completa de la Encuesta Nacional Demografía y Salud Familiar (ENDES) 2019 - [Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática - INEI]

promptly : 2019/691-Modulo64/Modulo64/RECH0.csv

But in python (pandas module) i have an error :

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf0 in position 442: invalid continuation byte

Please, any ideas.

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