txt files and codepages

[sum]

I have a txt file containing national characters (Umlauts).
If reading in that file with:

FileOpen(MyFile,"some.txt",cRead)
...
s = FileRead(MyFile)

national characters are replaced with a question mark character.

How kann I read the file correctly.

I think somehow the encoding (Codepage,"ISO-8859_1") of the file should be specified.
Any ideas?

 

[klaus]

You should use the CodepageFile object in the BytesConverter library.
You appear as an unlicensed user so I don't remember if this library is in the demo program.
Additional libraries are only accessible for users who baught B4PPC.

Best regards.

 

[agraham]

If you can't access my BytesConverter library you can do it a longer way round with the BinaryFile library which I think is available in the trial edition.

You open the BinaryFile with New2 passing it a files opened as Random. Dim a byte array with Length and read the bytes into it with ReadBytes. BytesToString then gets you a Unicode string to use in B4P that is converted from the format that you specified when you opened. The int value to pass for ISO-8859-1 is 28591.

 

[Nizze]

Testing this ..

Hi i also have that problem but with swedish letters.

i have this code that works for all letters but not for "åäö and ÅÄÖ".

barray = conv.StringToBytes(Txtut.Text,"UTF-8")
DataToSend = conv.HexFromBytes (barray)

How can i do do make it work ??

Br
Nizze

 

[Erel]

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