Text File encoding?

[jamie]

I have a file that was generated on a customers computer which is not
using the Windows default text encoding but uses Japanese(Shift-JIS)
encoding.

If I open the file in notepad the data looks normal but my application
can not read in the data properly (Line breaks are not what is expected)

Is there a way to translate a file to the windows default text encoding?

Also, is there an API to determine the which encoding a system is using?

Thanks,

Jamie

[Randy Birch]

Re: Text File encoding?

What do you mean by "line breaks are not what is expected"? Do you mean the
ASCII/ANSI character codes for a linefeed/newline are not vbCrLf (chr$(13) &
chr$(10))?

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"jamie" <jamie@noway.co m> wrote in message
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:I have a file that was generated on a customers computer which is not
: using the Windows default text encoding but uses Japanese(Shift-JIS)
: encoding.
:
: If I open the file in notepad the data looks normal but my application
: can not read in the data properly (Line breaks are not what is expected)
:
: Is there a way to translate a file to the windows default text encoding?
:
: Also, is there an API to determine the which encoding a system is using?
:
: Thanks,
:
: Jamie

[jamie]

Re: Text File encoding?

Randy Birch wrote:[color=blue]
> What do you mean by "line breaks are not what is expected"? Do you mean the
> ASCII/ANSI character codes for a linefeed/newline are not vbCrLf (chr$(13) &
> chr$(10))?[/color]

No I mean that the line breaks are not added in the correct locations
(if converting the encoding with word)... for example it adds 3
linebreaks to the end of the document and splits up a couple of lines
where there are spaces between the data.

Jamie