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Trying to parse table with russian symbols. Example csv file:

Название, Автор, Год

Бесы, Достоевский, 1871

Can't create a table from this file with any command: csvloop, csvautotabular{table.csv}, csvautobooktabular{table.csv}. While if everything is in English — works perfect.

File table.csv UTF-8 encoded, document uses usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}, usepackage[english,russian]{babel}.

These are the errors:

! Package csvsimple Error: File 'table.csv' starts with an empty line!.

! Missing endcsname inserted.

! Extra endcsname.

! File ended while scanning use of pgfkeys@temp

Can't find anything in documentation or elsewhere in the Tex forums on this problem.

Example .tex file:

documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{ncc}

usepackage[english,russian]{babel}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage{csvsimple}

begin{document}

csvautotabular{table.csv}

end{document}

There are two orders of problems.

1. The first row is also used to give symbolic names to the columns, but Cyrillic characters cannot appear in command names. Possibly this can be solved by options not to interpret the first line.




2. Cyrillic characters seem to thoroughly confuse csvsimple; you'd need to brace each entry.

My suggestion is to use XeLaTeX.

begin{filecontents*}{jobname.csv}

Название, Автор, Год

Бесы, Достоевский, 1871

end{filecontents*}



documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{ncc}

usepackage[english,russian]{babel}

usepackage{fontspec}

usepackage{csvsimple}



setmainfont{CMU Serif}



begin{document}

csvautotabular{jobname.csv}

end{document}

I used filecontents and a different name for the CSV file just not to clobber my files and to make the example self-contained.