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

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Sat Sep 27 00:24:00 EDT 2003


On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 10:10 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> That did it!

I am shocked!

>   return numToChar(abs(baseConvert("FEFF",16,10)))

BTW, the abs() is only needed to get around a baseConvert() bug in the 
general case, which this is not.  Also, you can figure out the constant 
expression in the message box, so this line might be shortened to this:

    return numToChar(65279) -- FEFF

> Thanks!

You are welcome.  I hope it works on other platforms.

Dar Scott


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