Create file into UTF-8

nromain

Hello and happy end of year,

I try to generate a file from navision (3.70) encoding in UTF-8 but i don't know how. I cannot use an external program. The file must be directly generate into UTF-8. Could you help me?

Thank you.

Regards,

garak

you can create in C# a DLL which convert your file in UTF-8.
Google for this, maybe there exist a freeware dll.

garak

Test this from the download section

nromain

Thank you for your reply, but i want to directly generate the file into UTF-8. I cannot pass trough an external way.

niscox

You can do this with an automation of type 'Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.8 Library'.Stream.

something like this:

CREATE(adostream);
adostream.Open;
adostream.Charset('UTF-8');

adostream.WriteText('testtext');
adostream.SaveToFile('c:\text.txt');

adostream.Close;

nromain

Hello,

i have not try this solution but a collegue show me another one that works :

Create the file you want to export into UTF-8 into a ANSI one. Create another file in binary this time (TEXTMODE = false) and forced the 3 beginning characters to be in hexadecimal : EF BB BF. Then open your first file with textmode = false and read each line and copy them into the second file.

The second file will be considered as UTF-8 (with EF BB and BF value) and contains all datas you want to export.

Best regards,

niscox

Interresting one, but this works only if your text contains nothing then good old 7-bit ASCII. Any Character above 7F (127) will result in a garbled textfile.