Re: Can not write string to file (ascii mode) when string contains chars with bit 8 set

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From: Michael Harris \(MVP\) ("Michael)
Date: 05/13/04


Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:00:46 -0700


> How does the FileSystemObject determine what char set to use when
> writing a file, can this be changed??

I don't really know how FSO methods work internally WRT choice of charset.
Al I know is that FSO methods that return TextStream objects opened for
write/append don't have any support for explicit charset, just the ASCII vs.
Unicode option.

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Michael Harris
Microsoft.MVP.Scripting
Sammamish WA US