The hyphen and the quotes made it work.

Many thanks, Dar!

Tim

On 2016/06/16 11:10, Dar Scott wrote:
The encoding names are found with textEncode and textDecode.  There you can see the name 
needs a hyphen.  Try "UTF-8".  (You can also open the file for binary or use 
binfifle: and then use textDecode.)

On Jun 15, 2016, at 7:54 PM, Tim Selander <selan...@tkf.att.ne.jp> wrote:

LC 8, Dictionary says it can be done, but does not give a sample. No syntax 
I've tried works.

How do you open a file encoded in UTF8?

open file <filePath> for UTF8 read

does not work.

Thanks.

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan

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