Thanks Jean-Louis, that answers all my questions Peter
From: Jean-Louis Faucher [mailto:jfaucher...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 2:39 AM To: Open Object Rexx Users Subject: Re: [Oorexx-users] Can UTF-8 input streams be read as UTF-8? ooRexx does not manage encodings, but that doesn't forbid to use UTF-8 (at least under Windows and Unix, can't tell for other platforms). You can open your UTF-8 files as text files, read them, rewrite them, there is no loss of bytes. The BIF and String class work at the byte level : "my UTF-8 string"~length returns the number of bytes, not the number of characters. "my UTF-8 string"~pos(superscript1) returns the position in byte-count. etc... It's ok to have a source file encoded in UTF-8, but only the string constants can contain UTF-8 characters, according the rules described in section "1.10.4. Tokens" in rexxref.pdf 2013/2/13 Peter J. Farley III <pjfarl...@earthlink.net> I have reviewed the reference manual documentation on the OPEN method, and I do not see any option to specify the encoding of the input stream. Is it possible to specify the input stream encoding anywhere? In particular, I have some UTF-8 text produced by Xpdfs pdftotext utility that I want to read and be able to specify UTF-8 character constants in my Rexx program code (also encoded in UTF-8) to be compared against the UTF-8 input characters. For instance, a superscript 1 in UTF-8 is actually encoded as two 8-bit characters, hex representation C2B9X. In my UTF-8 Rexx code, I would code a string constant to check for that superscript 1 as a quote, a superscript 1 and another quote, which displays as if it is three characters in the UTF-8 editor I use. If I am barking up the wrong tree here, please just guide me in the right direction. TIA for any help or RTFM you can provide. Regards, Peter -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Oorexx-users mailing list Oorexx-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-users
