internetreadfile greek or bulgarian characters

[elac]

Hello,

I'm using 'internetreadfile' to get the source code of some html pages. The problem is that some of the pages contain bulgarian or greek characters. Internetreadfile returns funny characters and I'd like to convert them back to normal characters.

Any experience on that?

Thanks

elac

 

[TonyJollans]

> Any experience on that?

No.

Now that I've answered your question <g> perhaps you could provide a little more information - 'funny characters' isn't a very useful description.

My reading of the description of InternetReadFile suggests it returns raw html; if so, it may contain a character set declaration, which you may need to interpret the text and you will have to make like a browser and do an awful lot of work. Is it really the best way to get the text?

If I have misunderstood and you actually get display text, exactly what text are you getting, exactly what are you doing with it, exactly what are you seeing, and exactly what do you expect to see?

Enjoy,
Tony

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[elac]

Here is what I should get ...

?????? 91/439/??? ??? ?????????? ??? 29?? ??????? 1991 ??? ??? ????? ????????

and here is what I get ...

Οδηγία αÏ?ιθ. 96/47/ΕΚ του Συμβουλίου της 23ης Ιουλίου 1996 πεÏ?ί Ï„Ï?οποποιήσεως της οδηγίας 91/439/ΕΟΚ για την άδεια οδήγησηÏ

For your information, the html page's encoding is Unicode(UTF-8).

 

[TonyJollans]

I don't have time to work through it at the moment but I suspect you have a UTF-8 sequence of bytes that you are interpreting as UTF-16.

Enjoy,
Tony

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[TonyJollans]

I've had a look at this and I'm quite sure, now, I'm right.

?????? encoded in UTF-8 is (hex) CE9F CEB4 CEB7 CEB3 CEAF CEB1.
Treated as an ANSI string, and converted to Unicode, this becomes (hex) 00CE 009F 00CE 00B4 00CE 00B7 etc, or Οδηγία




Enjoy,
Tony

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