Re: encoding

From: Igor Tandetnik (itandetnik_at_mvps.org)
Date: 05/25/04

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    Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 16:18:26 -0400

    UTF-8 is endianness-neutral, it does not need BOM mark. 

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With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat,
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"Tank" <anonymous@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:eLZ%23Z7xPEHA.4036@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl
> You must have Byte Order Mark (BOM) header written to the beginning
> of your file. You might want to read about BOM :
>
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/unicode_42jv.asp
>
> Hope this help.
>
> regards,
> tank
>
> "Paul" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3E356341-48BB-471D-80CB-E8AFDEE54D10@microsoft.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> How do I add encoding = UTF-8 to a file that was just created by
> _tfopen()?  Or... how do I create a file with encoding other than ANSI
> (UTF-8, Unicode, etc.) in C++?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
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