Writing unicode data in csv
csv, python, python-2.7
Solution
You are writing a file in UTF-8 format, but you don't indicate that into your csv file.
You should write the UTF-8 header at the beginning of the file. Add this:
ff = open('a.csv', 'w')
ff.write(codecs.BOM_UTF8)
And your csv file should open correctly after that with the program trying to read it.
Problem
I know similar kind of question has been asked many times but seriously i have not been able to properly implement the csv writer which writes properly in csv (it shows garbage). I am trying to use UnicodeWriter as mention in official docs . ``` ff = open('a.csv', 'w') writer = UnicodeWriter(ff) st = unicode('Displaygrößen', 'utf-8') #gives (u'Displaygr\xf6\xdfen', 'utf-8') writer.writerow([st]) ``` This does not give me any decoding or encoding error. But it writes the word `Displaygrößen` as `Displaygrößen` which is not good. Can any one help me what i am doing wrong here??