encoding problem.Utf8 to windows ansi.

#1 08-11-2008, 10:01 AM

Hi to all.I want to make a simple text editor like notepad.I am using
realbasic for about 4 months but i have a good background on visual
basic.Anyway the problem is that the text files that i save with
realbasic dont appear as they supposed to in notepad.I understand that
this is an encoding problem but i tried almost all the methods of
changing the encoding from utf-8 to windows ansi.I still get the same
result.All i want to do is to save the text file and then display it
right in notepad.I know that the default encoding notepad uses is
windows-ansi but no matter what way i choose to encode the text
nothing seems to change.Any suggestions?

#2 08-19-2008, 12:17 AM

On Aug 11, 7:01*am, mid <pan.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi to all.I want to make a simple text editor like notepad.I am using
> realbasic for about 4 months but i have a good background on visual
> basic.Anyway the problem is that the text files that i save with
> realbasic dont appear as they supposed to in notepad.I understand that
> this is an encoding problem but i tried almost all the methods of
> changing the encoding from utf-8 to windows ansi.I still get the same
> result.All i want to do is to save the text file and then display it
> right in notepad.I know that the default encoding notepad uses is
> windows-ansi but no matter what way i choose to encode the text
> nothing seems to change.Any suggestions?

Actually, notepad guesses at the encoding based on certain search
heuristics. There are a few good blog articles about the topic (and
fun ways you can screw it up). I would try saving the text file as
UTF-16, since that's a bit more native to Windows -- you can even put
a byte order mark in first if you really want to get it right.

~Aaron

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