Update function to always write BOM marker to identify file as Unicode UTF-16.
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Browse All TopicsI have a function for exporting data from a FlexGrid. However I have attempted to modifiy it to export with Unicode. (We have found when someone in China has there PC set to Chinese it only export have the grid, because it uses 2 bytes) I need to be able to let my users export the full grid. My new function works with out any errors, but it still only exports half the data.
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by: danaseamanPosted on 2008-08-13 at 14:41:58ID: 22225897
You file is not Unicode(UTF-16).
Use UnicodeFile_Write_VB and UnicodeFile_Read_VB below.
UnicodeFile_Write_VB pubTempFolder & "\ExportWork.dat", expStr
expStr = UnicodeFile_Read_VB (pubTempFolder & "\ExportWork.dat")
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