Writing to file in utf-8

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Wed Sep 3 11:44:43 EDT 2014


He wants UTF8 files.

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On 3 sep 2014, at 17:19, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 7:28 AM, <jbv at souslelogo.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have a script that accumulates successive strings into a file.
>> Each string comes from utf-8 text files and contains french
>> characters with accents like "é à ô".
>> After processing in the script, those strings get accumulated
>> in other txt files. I need these second serie of files to be in
>> utf-8 format too.
>> ...
>> 
>> put (unidecode(it,"utf8") & return) after url tPath
>> 
> 
> Why are you using unidecode? Unless you are converting the data you read in
> to UTF16 data using uniencode then you are passing bad data to unidecode.
> unidecode expects UTF16 data. Based on what I've read you shouldn't need to
> use unidecode or uniencode. Just read the text in (using binfile),
> manipulate it, write the text out (using binfile).
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