writeln using non-English characters

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ajk48n
Posts: 20
Joined: January 17th, 2007, 3:02 pm

I'm having a problem writing a line to a file when the text is a non-english character.

For instance, I run the following

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var presetFile = File.saveDialog("Select a file...");
presetFile.open("w","TEXT","????"); 

var english = "A";
var chinese = "喜";

writeTestEnglish = presetFile.writeln(english);
writeTestChinese = presetFile.writeln(chinese);

presetFile.close();
writeTestEnglish will be True, and writeTestChinese will be False

Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?

Thanks,
Adam
Paul Tuersley
Posts: 704
Joined: June 5th, 2004, 7:59 am
Location: London, UK

This seems to work ok.

Paul

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var presetFile = File.saveDialog("Select a file...");

presetFile.encoding = "UTF-8";
presetFile.open("w","TEXT","????"); 

var english = "A";
var chinese = "喜";

writeTestEnglish = presetFile.writeln(english);
writeTestChinese = presetFile.writeln(chinese);

presetFile.close();
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