unicode files? open file for text or binary?

[Kee Nethery]

Mark, thank you for the answer. 

Kee Nethery


On Jan 8, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> 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
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