unicode files? open file for text or binary?

[Mark Schonewille]

Kee,

Read the data as binary. Use the BOM to detect UTF8/UTF16/UTF32 and  
the endian. If necessary, switch the bytes to change the endian.  
Delete the BOM and set the unicodeText of a field to the remaining data.

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Op 9 jan 2010, om 00:57 heeft Kee Nethery het volgende geschreven:

> I want to open a unicode file and read it. It has a BOM at the front  
> to indicate what kind of encoding it uses (in this case UTF-16). Do  
> I open this as a text file and read it and unicode goodness happens?  
> Or is it a bunch of binary data that I need to somehow convert into  
> unicode values (ug)?
>
> Kee Nethery