Simon Willison’s Weblog

16th October 2020

TIL Explicit file encodings using click.File — I wanted to add a `--encoding` option to `sqlite-utils insert` which could be used to change the file encoding used to read the incoming CSV or TSV file - see [sqlite-utils #182](https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/182).

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Posted 16th October 2020 at 8:39 pm

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