how to write a unicode string to a file ?
Kee Nethery
kee at kagi.com
Fri Oct 16 21:02:33 EDT 2009
On Oct 16, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Stef Mientki
> <stef.mientki at gmail.com> wrote:
snip
> The thing is, I'd be VERY surprised (neigh, shocked!) if Excel can't
> open a file that is in UTF8-- it just might need to be TOLD that its
> utf8 when you go and open the file, as UTF8 looks just like ASCII --
> until it contains characters that can't be expressed in ASCII. But I
> don't know what type of file it is you're saving.
We found that UTF-16 was required for Excel. It would not "do the
right thing" when presented with UTF-8.
Kee Nethery
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