Thread Subject:

urlread and accents

Hello world!! :)

I try to read an url to find some data but I've noticed that urlread
doesn't understand accent and some special letters.
Is there any method to force urlread to read the accents??

ex: é è à ù û ê î ç

Thanks for your help

N.B.: this letters come from french language :)

urlread was having some trouble with character encodings. I think I
sorted it out in the latest release. If you e-mail me directly, I
can send you the latest version.

"Matthew Simoneau" <matthew@mathworks.com> wrote in message <ef13590.0@webx.raydaftYaTP>...
> urlread was having some trouble with character encodings. I think I
> sorted it out in the latest release. If you e-mail me directly, I
> can send you the latest version.

I am having the same problem with version 2011a. How can I fix this?

The workaround is to use URLWRITE, then fopen the file with the proper encoding, something like this:

tempfile = tempname;
urlwrite(url,tempfile);
f = fopen(tempfile ,'r','l','ISO-8859-1');
c = fread(f,'*char')';
fclose(f);
delete(tempfile)

We've got this in our bug database:
http://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/452134

Stay tuned to that page for updates on this issue in future releases.