creating a Unicode (UTF-8) file using open/write/close file

[Trevor DeVore]

Dar,

That did it!  The following code create a file that was read as a UTF8 
file by BBEdit:

on mouseUp
   set useUnicode to true
   put "/Users/trevordevore/Desktop/config.xml" into tPath
   open file tPath for binary write
   write uniDecode (bom() & the unicodeText of field 1, "UTF8") to file 
tPath
   close file tPath
end mouseUp

function bom
   set the useUnicode to true
   return numToChar(abs(baseConvert("FEFF",16,10)))
end bom

Thanks!

-- 
Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com


On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 05:52  PM, Dar Scott wrote:

>
> On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 08:38 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
>
>> I get a file that Flash MX reads without a problem.  BBEdit still 
>> doesn't recognize it but I will mess around with adding the BOM to 
>> the file and see if that helps.  Now I just need to find a way to get 
>> file paths in unicode and I will have a unicode friendly application.
>
> Try putting the BOM before the unicode and then convert to UTF-8.
>
> (BTW, as you probably noticed, I got the bytes swapped in my earlier 
> suggestion for creating the BOM.  The principle still might work.
>
> function bom
>   set the useUnicode to true
>   return numToChar(abs(baseConvert("FEFF",16,10)))
> end if
>
> Or something like that.
>
> Or simply use the three byte UTF-8 version.)
>
> Dar Scott
> unicode sophomore
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