On Nov 17, 2006, at 23:08 UTC, Youri wrote: > t.write ConvertEncoding(Editfield1.text, Encodings.UTF8)
OK, so you're writing a file in UTF-8. > When I write in editfield1 the following accentuated text : > > é à è ç !!! > > If I open the Preferences.txt file with TextEdit, I get : > > ?© ? ?® ?à !!! This just means that TextEdit hasn't properly guessed the text encoding. You could make it guess a little better by writing out a byte-order mark at the beginning of the file, or you can just tell TextEdit to open this as UTF-8. > The preview in the finder shows the text properly, and so does NeoOffice... OK, so the Finder and NeoOffice are guessing correctly. > I tried UTF16, MacRoman without any luck with Textedit. Who knows what TextEdit is guessing? I'm sure it will tell you somewhere if you poke around enough. > So, the question is : What shall I use to be sure that any > Wordprocessor/Text Editor will display my file correctly on Mac, on > Windows and in a multiplatform way? You can't. It's up to the individual reader app; some are smarter than others, but there is generally NO fool-proof way to know what encoding a particular text file might be. > Is there somewhere in a text file that we can specify the encoding used > at the creation, so the Wordprocessor will know? Nope -- apart from, perhaps, a byte-order mark, which some text editors will recognize and others will not. Best, - Joe -- Joe Strout -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verified Express, LLC "Making the Internet a Better Place" http://www.verex.com/ _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
