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VB Script to save Unicode file in UTF8

Asked by: wagachchi

Hi Experts,

I have a flat file created in unicode using DTS. Now I want to convert this file to UTF8 format.

First I want to know whether I can output flat file in DTS with UTF8 formatting, if not how can I convert Unicode file to UTF8 file using vbscript.

Thanks

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Answers

 

by: RobSampsonPosted on 2009-09-03 at 19:30:51ID: 25256538

Hi, I'm not sure about the DTS output, but this code will probably convert an existing Unicode file for you.
Take a backup of your text file before running this, just in case.

Regards,

Rob.

Const intUnicode = -1
Const intForReading = 1
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
strTextFile = "MyTextFile.txt"
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strTextFile, intForReading, False, intUnicode)
strContents = objFile.ReadAll
objFile.Close
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(strTextFile, True, False)
objFile.Write strContents
objFile.Close
MsgBox "Finished."

                                              
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by: wagachchiPosted on 2009-09-04 at 01:42:26ID: 25257703

I want UNICODE to UTF8 Conversion.

 

by: RobSampsonPosted on 2009-09-04 at 01:55:04ID: 25257762

Have you tried it?  This opens a unicode file and saves it as the system default format.

Rob.

 

by: RobSampsonPosted on 2009-09-04 at 02:27:00ID: 25257885

OK, my bad, that only converts UniCode to ASCII.  This will now convert UniCode to ASCII to UTF-8, as it's easiest as a three step process.

Regards,

Rob.

Const intUnicode = -1
Const intForReading = 1
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
strTextFile = "MyTextFile.txt"
strUTF8File = "MyTextFile_UTF8.txt"
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strTextFile, intForReading, False, intUnicode)
strContents = objFile.ReadAll
objFile.Close
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(strTextFile, True, False)
objFile.Write strContents
objFile.Close
 
ConvertASCIItoUTF8 strTextFile, strUTF8File
 
MsgBox "Finished."
 
Function ConvertASCIItoUTF8( myFileIn, myFileOut )
' Source: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/vbstech_files_utf8.php
' UTF8()  Version 1.00
' Open a "plain" text file and save it again in UTF-8 encoding
' (overwriting an existing file without asking for confirmation).
'
' Based on a sample script from JTMar:
' http://bytes.com/groups/asp/52959-save-file-utf-8-format-asp-vbscript
'
' Written by Rob van der Woude
' http://www.robvanderwoude.com
 
    Dim objStream
 
    ' Valid Charset values for ADODB.Stream
    Const CdoBIG5        = "big5"
    Const CdoEUC_JP      = "euc-jp"
    Const CdoEUC_KR      = "euc-kr"
    Const CdoGB2312      = "gb2312"
    Const CdoISO_2022_JP = "iso-2022-jp"
    Const CdoISO_2022_KR = "iso-2022-kr"
    Const CdoISO_8859_1  = "iso-8859-1"
    Const CdoISO_8859_2  = "iso-8859-2"
    Const CdoISO_8859_3  = "iso-8859-3"
    Const CdoISO_8859_4  = "iso-8859-4"
    Const CdoISO_8859_5  = "iso-8859-5"
    Const CdoISO_8859_6  = "iso-8859-6"
    Const CdoISO_8859_7  = "iso-8859-7"
    Const CdoISO_8859_8  = "iso-8859-8"
    Const CdoISO_8859_9  = "iso-8859-9"
    Const cdoKOI8_R      = "koi8-r"
    Const cdoShift_JIS   = "shift-jis"
    Const CdoUS_ASCII    = "us-ascii"
    Const CdoUTF_7       = "utf-7"
    Const CdoUTF_8       = "utf-8"
 
    ' ADODB.Stream file I/O constants
    Const adTypeBinary          = 1
    Const adTypeText            = 2
    Const adSaveCreateNotExist  = 1
    Const adSaveCreateOverWrite = 2
 
    On Error Resume Next
    
    Set objStream = CreateObject( "ADODB.Stream" )
    objStream.Open
    objStream.Type = adTypeText
    objStream.Position = 0
    objStream.Charset = CdoUTF_8
    objStream.LoadFromFile myFileIn
    objStream.SaveToFile myFileOut, adSaveCreateOverWrite
    objStream.Close
    Set objStream = Nothing
    
    If Err Then
        UTF8 = False
    Else
        UTF8 = True
    End If
    
    On Error Goto 0
End Function

                                              
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by: wagachchiPosted on 2009-09-04 at 10:06:45ID: 25261484

When I ran the code above I saw two issues.

1) I'm getting an error message 'Input Pass End of The File'
2) The code empties the source unicode file.

I found a code that does my job, here it is

Const adTypeBinary          = 1
Const adTypeText            = 2
Const adSaveCreateNotExist  = 1
Const adSaveCreateOverWrite = 2
Const adWriteLine = 1
Const adReadLine = -2
Const adLF = 10
Const adCR = 13
Const adCRLF = -1
Set streamUnicode = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
Set streamUTF8 = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
 
 
      streamUnicode.Open
      streamUnicode.Type = adTypeText
      streamUnicode.LineSeparator = adCRLF
      streamUnicode.Charset = "Unicode"
      streamUnicode.LoadFromFile "C:\Temp\U.txt"
 
     
        streamUTF8.Open
        streamUTF8.Type = adTypeText
        streamUTF8.LineSeparator = adCRLF
        streamUTF8.CharSet = "UTF-8"
 
        Do Until streamUnicode.EOS
          streamUTF8.WriteText streamUnicode.ReadText(adReadLine), adWriteLine
        Loop
        streamUnicode.Close
           
 
          streamUTF8.SaveToFile "UTF8.txt", adSaveCreateOverWrite
          streamUTF8.Close
 
 
    MsgBox "Conversion Complete!"

                                              
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by: RobSampsonPosted on 2009-09-04 at 15:59:55ID: 25264029

OK, that's great.  You can request that this question be closed, accepting your last comment as the answer.

Regards,

Rob.

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