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

[Josh Mellicker]

Thanks Martin, but I'm not sure how to use this info.

I wonder if anyone here knows how to save a text file in Unicode or  
some character encoding that preserves international character sets?

Thanks


On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:

> 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
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