Read file with accented characters ?
Zax
zax at tripoy.com
Wed May 24 09:23:50 EDT 2006
Well, after more tests with different text files, it appears that my
solution doesn't work in some cases :(
Does anybody have a better idea ?
> I tried this function but it returns wrong result with Rev 2.5.1
>
> So finally I will use the following process:
>
> open file MyFile for binary read
> if the result <> "" then
> read from file MyFile until EOF
> close file MyFile
> put the number of lines in it into NumOfLines
> open file MyFile for text read
> read from file MyFile until EOF
> close file MyFile
> if the number of lines in it <> NumOfLines then get IsoToMac(it)
>
> It opens the text file twice - once as binary as the other as text - and
> compares the number of lines. If the number of lines is different, then it's
> not a pure Mac text file, so I have to use IsoToMac() to fix accented
> characters.
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Zax
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