Re: txt-file is in ANSI format or OEM Character format.

Hi Joel.

Thanks for reply.

Regret my insufficient explanation in the beginning.



Today I save the Excel file with customer data to a csv-file.

This file I open in UltraEdit (Hex-editor) and change ANSI to OEM and close
then file.

This file I deliver to the production ink-printer.

The operator then load the file into then machine. I do think it is some old
"DOS" because it is not Windows.

Then the operator ink customer data on magazines.



It would be very nice if I could save the Excel-file as an OEM csv-file.



It would also be nice if I could test a csv-file for ANSI/OEM version.


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Best regards from

Joergen Bondesen


"Joel" <Joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i en meddelelse
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Now I understand the problem. Have you saved the file as CSV file or
other
Text formats. What happens?

to fully understand what is happening you need to save the file and then
open the file with Notepad or some other text editor. Also try printing
some
of the text files and see what happends.

The older printers have a smaller character set (number of characters) it
recognizes. When you use excel or other microsoft products such as word
you
are using the OEM character set to be compatible with the printer.

You are actually changing the Font and not the word. The font setting
are
invisible formatting characters just like Bold setting or color settings.
when you save the file as text all the formating characters are removed.
The solution in word would be to save the file as RTF which keeps the
formating.

You could try copying the file to word and then save the File as RTF.

"Joergen Bondesen" wrote:

Hi Joel.

Thanks for your reply.

I think the only real difference is the end of the lines being a
"carriage
return" or "carriage return and line feed".
That is not quite correct. In Denmark we have local letters as æ, ø and å
and therefore I have to change from ANSI to OEM when I am using data in
"old" industrial ink printers.

It is pretty easy to convert a file from one to the other format.

Do you have vba code for both purpose?

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Jørgen Bondesen


"Joel" <Joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i en meddelelse
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I think the only real difference is the end of the lines being a
"carriage
return" or "carriage return and line feed".

"Chip Pearson" wrote:

If you know ahead of time what the content of the file is, you can
parse
out
some known piece of information and look at the character codes. But
if
you
don't know the content of the file, I don't think you can do what you
want.


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Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
Excel Product Group
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
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"Joergen Bondesen" <bondesen@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi NG.

Is it possibel, in VBA, to know if a txt-file is in ANSI format or
OEM
Character format.

Is this possible to save a txt-file (ANSI format) to OEM Character
format.

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Joergen Bondesen









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