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

[Joe F.]

They've posted a good explanation of how to use unicode text here on  
the Rev site:

http://lessons.runrev.com/spaces/754/buckets/784/lessons/6930-How-Do-I-Use-UTF-8-Text-With-Fields-


On Oct 21, 2009, at 7:59 PM, Josh Mellicker wrote:

> 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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