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Re: Writing to file as UTF8 with BOM ?
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Re: Writing to file as UTF8 with BOM ?


  • Subject: Re: Writing to file as UTF8 with BOM ?
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:35:37 +0200

At 9:22 PM +0200 10/25/06, Richard Rönnbäck wrote:
Hi,

I have an application that requires an import file encoded as UTF8 with a leading BOM.

After examining some working files with proper encoding in BBedit I have concluded that the BOM seems to consist of three characters, so I thought I could just concatenate those with the actual data and write to file, like this:


set myBom to ((ASCII character 239) & (ASCII character 187) & (ASCII character 191))
set myString to "Hej Hå"
set myCS to myBom & myString


set myTestFile to (open for access file "Macintosh HD:Users:richardr:Desktop:tjong.txt" with write permission)
write myCS to myTestFile as «class utf8»
close access myTestFile



However, neither that, nor any other combination I can think of seems to do the trick.


What am I missing?

I would write the BOM as ASCII:

write myBom to myTestFile
write myString to mytestFile as «class utf8»

You may find our page on Unicode and AppleScript useful:
<http://www.satimage-software.com/en/unicode_and_applescript.html>

Emmanuel
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