How to save an ANSI file from Business Central?

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• SanderDk Member Posts: 504

  2025-04-23

  Hi @MortenSteengaard,
  According to MS Docs the Windows format is ANSI :
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-file-handling-and-text-encoding?wt.mc_id=DX-MVP-5003099#windows-format

  For help, do not use PM, use forum instead, perhaps other people have the same question, or better answers.
  

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• MortenSteengaard Member Posts: 139

  2025-04-23

  Hi SanderDk,
  Thank you for your reply.
  You are right, but when I save the file on my local computer, open it in Notepad and select "Save as", then I can see that it is "UTF-8".
  The file must be imported into "EG Lønservice" and the letters æ, ø and å are not correct after the import.
  If I manually make a text file with ANSI encoding using Notepad, then it works fine.
  Best regards,
  Morten

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• vaprog Member Posts: 1,156

  2025-04-23

  So, how do you create the file? How do you tell the system to create the file with Windows encoding?

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• MortenSteengaard Member Posts: 139

  2025-04-24

  Hi vaprog,
  I have the data in a Temp Blob and save it to a file like this:
  
  TempBlob.CreateInStream(IStream, TEXTENCODING::Windows);
  //TempBlob.CreateInStream(IStream, TEXTENCODING::UTF8);
  //TempBlob.CreateInStream(IStream, TEXTENCODING::MSDos);
  
  Filename := 'Test.txt';
  DownloadFromStream(IStream, '', '', '', Filename);

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• vaprog Member Posts: 1,156

  2025-04-25

  I would expect what you do to work correctly. If it does not, I'd write to a tempfile, then download that tempfile. This way you can set the TEXTENCODING on the outstream.

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