how to preserve character set encoding when creating a text file?

[Martin Baxter]

Perhaps this info is a clue?

Windows or Unix character position 237 = iacute

Mac character position 237 = Igrave

Martin Baxter

Josh Mellicker wrote:
> In Czechoslovakia, the "Application Data" folder on Windows XP is called
> "Data aplikací". So, when we get specialfolderpath("26"), the path looks
> something like this:
> 
> C:/Documents and Settings/Username/Data aplikací/OurFolder/
> 
> In Rev, all works fine.
> 
> But when we create a regular text batch file:
> 
>    put tBatchCommands into URL ("binfile:" & theBatchFileLoc())
> 
> the Czech character is transformed into this:
> 
>     C:/Documents and Settings/Username/Data aplikacÌ/OurFolder/
> 
> and when running the batch file, the system cannot find the path.
> 
> Obviously we are messing up the character encoding when we write the
> text file and the (one character, in our case) is changed.
> 
> Has anyone run into this or know how to preserve character encoding in
> our text file?_______________________________________________
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