How can I deal with swedish words in matlab.

Now when I read a .txt file with swedish words into matlab and then output it, all the swedish words became garbled. How can I make my matlab support swedish? Thanks in advance.

[Andreas Goser]

Can you be more specific with what the output is? Like "Into the Command Window" or a figure?

[per isakson]

R2012a, 64bit, Windows 7,

    >> str = sprintf( '%s\n', 'ÅÄÖåäö' )
    str =
    ÅÄÖåäö

    >> double( str )
    ans =
       197   196   214   229   228   246    10
    >>

[Fang]

Thanks for your reply. The problem is like:

>> str = sprintf( '%s\n', 'ÅÄÖåäö' )

str =

??????

I think it's because my os not supporting swedish. I don't know how to repair it.

[Fang]

when I input the sentence as following , I got:

double( str ) ans =

    63    63    63    63    63    63    10

[Fang]

I change the OS option to swedish, then I got right swedish in command. But if I read swedish string into a variable in the matlab program and then print the variable in command, it will be wrong again. like:

the original words:

          säkerställa

the wrong words like:

          säkerställa

[Walter Roberson]

How are you doing the reading into a variable ?

Answer 1

[per isakson]

Joel on Software wrote The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

A little experiment:

• I wrote "ÅÄÖåäö" in UTF-8 with Notepad++ and saved as swedish.txt
• I used fileread to read the file

    >> fileread( 'swedish.txt' )
    ans =
    ÅÄÖåäö
    >>

• I converted my text to ANSI and

    >> fileread( 'swedish.txt' )
    ans =
    ÅÄÖåäö

Thus, I think you read from a file encoded with UTF-8.

See the documentation on fopen. With the correct setting "any" coding can be decoded.

However,

    >> sprintf( '%s\n', 'ÅÄÖåäö' )
    ans =
    ÅÄÖåäö