Create file into UTF-8

nromain
nromain Member Posts: 57
edited 2008-12-17 in NAV/Navision Classic Client
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,

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  • garak
    garak Member Posts: 3,263
    you can create in C# a DLL which convert your file in UTF-8.
    Google for this, maybe there exist a freeware dll.
    Do you make it right, it works too!
  • garak
    garak Member Posts: 3,263
    Test this from the download section
    Do you make it right, it works too!
  • nromain
    nromain Member Posts: 57
    Thank you for your reply, but i want to directly generate the file into UTF-8. I cannot pass trough an external way.
  • niscox
    niscox Member Posts: 15
    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
    nromain Member Posts: 57
    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
    niscox Member Posts: 15
    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.

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