opening utf8 text file

[Tim Selander]

The hyphen and the quotes made it work.

Many thanks, Dar!

Tim

On 2016/06/16 11:10, Dar Scott wrote:
> The encoding names are found with textEncode and textDecode.  There you can see the name needs a hyphen.  Try "UTF-8".  (You can also open the file for binary or use binfifle: and then use textDecode.)
>
>> On Jun 15, 2016, at 7:54 PM, Tim Selander <selander at tkf.att.ne.jp> wrote:
>>
>> LC 8, Dictionary says it can be done, but does not give a sample. No syntax I've tried works.
>>
>> How do you open a file encoded in UTF8?
>>
>> open file <filePath> for UTF8 read
>>
>> does not work.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Tim Selander
>> Tokyo, Japan
>>
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