Importing unicode UTF8 text files - followup

[J. Landman Gay]

On 8/19/2015 2:09 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Just to follow up: When importing foreign language files, "file" isn't
> working. Non-ascii characters show up as question marks and textDecode
> does nothing.
>
> Using "binfile" and then textDecoding does import correctly but then
> text chunking by lines fails. Line endings are imported as 2 bytes using
> byteToNum 13,10 (in that order) which isn't the line ending standard for
> any OS. I have to replace those specifically.
>
> These are text files saved as UTF-8, created on Mac OS X and imported on
> Mac OS X. I'm using LC 7.0.6.
>

Sigh. They don't all do that. Some of the files have CR endings. It 
seems to vary by language.

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