Textscan can't read letters with acents

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Hi I am trying to read a csv file of names which include some names with accented letters such as the lower case version of "Á" (can't find a lower case a with an accent on my keyboard). Textscan just ignores the character. Any ideas how we can read these characters with text?
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Sara
Sara on 26 Jun 2014
Can you post an example of your cvs file? textscan has no problem if I build a string with such a character.

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Ken Atwell
Ken Atwell on 27 Jun 2014
A .CSV file is an ASCII file without character set encoding information. You might need to experiment with different encodings to stumble upon the one the file was created with.
See the documentation for the optional encodingIn parameter to fopen for a discussion.
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harry
harry on 1 Jul 2014
This information including Jose-Luis link led me to change the default character set encoding to 'US-ASCII' which resolved the problem.

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