Re: unicode file

Thanks for that information Mihai. If it works, that would be a great addition to the library...

I appreciate the link.

Tom

"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns9AC67703E353MihaiN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
how can now if the file is unicode or ansi
and if is ansi how can i convert it to unicode

Adding even more to the answers from Tom and Giovanni :-)

If you use a VS8, take a loot at _open:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z0kc8e3z(VS.80).aspx
You can specify _O_TEXT, _O_U16TEXT, _O_U8TEXT or _O_WTEXT

And the nicest part about _O_WTEXT:
"If _O_WTEXT is used to open a file for reading, _open reads the
beginning of the file and check for a byte order mark (BOM).
If there is a BOM, the file is treated as UTF-8 or UTF-16LE
depending on the BOM. If no BOM is present, the file is treated
as ANSI. When a file is opened for writing using _O_WTEXT, UTF-16
is used. If _O_UTF8 is used, the file is always opened as UTF-8
and if _O_UTF16 is used, the file is always opened as UTF-16
regardless of any previous setting or byte order mark."

No extra libraries (sorry Giovanni :-) and no need to do your own conversion
(sorry Tom :-)


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