sdowney717

This is how I write to a file using utf8 encoding. If the encoding is not specified on the DIM, does it assume UTF8? I process the...

Not sure? absolutely, I am a real newbie here. I just tried this and it seems to work on 4 unicode file types Is this going to be...

I'm not sure why you're doing all this read the file, get the encoding, then a bunch of If statements. Just open the file with...

And Notepad++ app gave me a huge boost on a file I had that showed Swedish chars but kept failing to be read as any kind of unicode, it...

So now this code snip is really working to select how to open unicode files. I really do appreciate your help. The sub I have been...

it's 4.8

I have figured out somethings. I can use NotePad++ to change the file encoding and also leave off or add on the BOM for UTF8 files And...

yes, all I have seen is utf8 for Marc 21 I still need some help to figure out my prior post.

Seems you're overcomplicating this. from: Character Sets: UCS/Unicode Environment: MARC 21 Specifications for Record Structure...

I don't exactly know what I am doing here I created 4 different unicode encoded files, then tried to read them like this code The last...

I am reading some conflicting information now, he says streamreader auto detects between unicode file types Meaning most of this extra...

And even that is not enough for UTF16 can be big or little endian...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.text.unicodeencoding?view=net-8.0

What I did so far is this then had to use as object because sr.currentencoding, to capture the value is not a string

So what is a file created with 'UnicodeEncoding', is it a BigIndianUnicode file?? I dont see any other file create unicode option in...