unicodeText or raw text

[Kenji Kojima]

Ron,

Did you put a BOM before the text.

set the useUnicode to true
put numToChar(baseConvert("FEFF",16,10)) into tBom
ask file "" with "jpn_bomUtf16.txt"
put tBom & the unicodeText of fld 1 into URL ("binfile:" & it)

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Kenji Kojima
http://www.kenjikojima.com/



On Mar 28, 2007, at 8:32 PM, ron wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I am saving Japanese text as unicodetext to a file on a Mac but it  
> seems to be saved as raw text. That is, when the file is  
> doubleclicked and opens Textedit, it shows raw unicode, not  
> Japanese. If Textedit's preferences are set to open text files as  
> UTF16, then it opens the file and displays Japanese properly. If  
> the file is opened in Textedit as plain text but then saved as  
> UTF16 with no other changes, it displays Japanese properly on  
> subsequent opens.
>
> Is there a way to indicate that the textfile of unicoded text is  
> indeed UTF16 so that it displays properly in text editors?
>
> Thanks
> Ron
>
> ps I am aware of the options of rtftext and htmltext so you don't  
> have to suggest those as alternative ways save the text. I need the  
> plain text option as well.
>
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