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ID	125🔗
Date:	2017-10-07 18:00:41
Status	Closed (Not a Bug)
Category	datatool
Version	v2.27
Summary	datatool + utf8 special chars in raw CSV import = sounds of breaking LaTeX

Description

MWE (test.tex, MUST HAVE TEST.CSV TO WORK):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{datatool}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\appendix
\section{Bill of Materials}

\DTLloadrawdb{bom}{test.csv}
\DTLdisplaydb{bom}
\end{document}

MWE (test.csv) (was UTF-8 encoded until the mojibake happened, can send separately if needed, LMK if you want a separate report about your bug report form):

"name","quantity"
"10μF 16V",5
"470Ω 1/2W",10
"33k×9",1

Salient error:

! Undefined control sequence.
\GenericError  ...                                
                                                    #4  \errhelp \@err@     ...
l.9 \DTLloadrawdb{bom}{test.csv}

Full logs:

[...]

(See [How do I get datatool to play nicely with utf8 inputenc and non-ASCII in the incoming CSV?] for more details and a non-mojibake'd test.csv btw)

MWE

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{datatool}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\appendix
\section{Bill of Materials}

\DTLloadrawdb{bom}{test.csv}
\DTLdisplaydb{bom}
\end{document}

Evaluation

(I removed the log from your message as it's too noisy. The bug report script has saved the accompanying log file.) It's not a bug as you also get an error with just:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
10μF 16V, 5
470Ω 1/2W, 10
33k×9, 1
\end{document}

and your MWE works fine with recognised UTF-8 characters. For example, if test.csv is changed to:

"name","quantity"
"éîà",1

You need to map the unrecognised UTF-8 characters (as in Alan Munn's answer) or use a UTF-8 aware engine.

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