write file with UTF-8 encoding

[imox]

Hello,

I write my txt files with FCREATE, FWRITE .... how can I write the file with UTF-8 encoding?

Thanks

 

[Mike Lewis]

Rick Strahl's article is the seminal work on this topic:

Using Unicode in Visual FoxPro Web and Desktop Applications

Mike

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[imox]

Thanks

 

[Olaf Doschke]

The essential function to use on ANSI text is STRCONV(string,9).

That is the nConversionsetting from DBCS to UTF-8, where DBCS stands for double byte character set, which many don't recognize as the correct source setting for the VFP ANSI encoded strings, but that works for the full set of eg ANSI 1252 code page.

So instead of FWRITE(handle, string) you do FWRITE(handle, STRCONV(string,9)).

Bye, Olaf.

 

[imox]

Thanks for your description. I've done this like you.