Changes encoding to UTF-8 to fix load error.

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Changes encoding to UTF-8 to fix load error. #181

Closed mikeckennedy closed 6 years ago

mikeckennedy commented 6 years ago

Hi folks. There is some kind of error in this CSV document that breaks apps trying to load it as a basic UTF-8 text file. See the image below. This PR loads, converts, then saves to UTF-8 this content.

mikeckennedy commented 6 years ago

Here's the screenshot for the error.

screen shot 2018-04-30 at 2 19 11 pm

mikeckennedy commented 6 years ago

Hi guys. Are you planning on accepting this PR? Just want to let some users of the data know one way or the other.

dmil commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the PR - this looks good. I'll go ahead and merge it.