How can I specify the encoding?

[Morriaty-The-Murderer]

Hi

My csv file contains characters (isp names) out range of ascii.
After transforming, my application could read the dat file, but result in unreadable code.

Thank you for help.

[mnicky]

It works for me with utf-8:

$ file -i GeoLiteCityv6.tst.csv
GeoLiteCityv6.tst.csv: text/plain; charset=utf-8

$ head GeoLiteCityv6.tst.csv
2001:5::,2001:5:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff,42540488558116655331872044393019998208,42540488637344817846136381986563948543,EU,,Île-de-France,47.0000,8.0000,,0,0

$ ./csv2dat.py -w test.dat -l GeoIPCity-134euw-Location.csv mmcity6 GeoLiteCityv6.tst.csv

$ python
>>> import GeoIP
>>> r=GeoIP.open('test.dat', 0)
>>> r.record_by_addr_v6('2001:5::')
{'city': '\xc3\x8ele-de-France', 'region_name': None, 'region': None, 'area_code': 0, 'time_zone': None, 'longitude': 8.0, 'metro_code': 0, 'country_code3': 'EU', 'latitude': 47.0, 'postal_code': None, 'dma_code': 0, 'country_code': 'EU', 'country_name': 'Europe'}
>>> print r.record_by_addr_v6('2001:5::')['city'].decode('utf-8')
Île-de-France