UTF-8 vs ANSI Character Encoding

[Moose423956]

G'day techies. I have a question concerning the default encoding of text type files on Windows. Is there a way to specify that all text files created under Windows via a script always have a UTF-8 encoding, or to automatically detect the data type in the file and select the encoding from that.

So if a file contains UTF-8 type characters, then the file is defined with a UTF-8 encoding, otherwise it is defined as an ANSI file.

Sorry if that's a bit woolly. Would gladly try to elucidate if required.

[DimPrawn]

If the file has a byte-order-mark, then yes, you can detect the encoding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark

As usual, .NET has the answer.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/net...aspx#Question2

[Moose423956]

If the file has a byte-order-mark, then yes, you can detect the encoding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark

As usual, .NET has the answer.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/net...aspx#Question2

How does one go about setting the BOM?

[DimPrawn]

That's your free 15 minutes used up Moosey. If you would like to use my services, the hourly rate is £60 p.h. which is cheaper than a London Plumber.

[Moose423956]

That's your free 15 minutes used up Moosey. If you would like to use my services, the hourly rate is £60 p.h. which is cheaper than a London Plumber.

You sod. Feed me a little bit of info, then reel me in like a nice juicy catch. Couldn't you give me just one little freebie? Please?

[oracleslave]

You sod. Feed me a little bit of info, then reel me in like a nice juicy catch. Couldn't you give me just one little freebie? Please?

It's called pre-sales innit?

[Moose423956]

It's called pre-sales innit?

I hardly think he's going to get a 3-month contract out of it.

[chicane]

How does one go about setting the BOM?

Use a hex editor. I find dos debug does the job.

[DimPrawn]

You sod. Feed me a little bit of info, then reel me in like a nice juicy catch. Couldn't you give me just one little freebie? Please?

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f5f5x7kt.aspx

That's yer lot.

[Moose423956]

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f5f5x7kt.aspx

That's yer lot.

Thanks DP. I saw this, and thought of you:

Visual Basic (Usage)
Dim path As String
Dim append As Boolean
Dim encoding As Encoding

Dim instance As New StreamWriter(path, append, _
encoding)