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Re: Read a text file

Subject: Re: Read a text file
From: Stan Cleveland <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:01:20 -0700

On Jul 30, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Gil Dawson wrote:

But can read srtFile diagnose encodings?

Hi Gil,

It can to some extent, but it depends on the file it's reading. These days, there are many ways by which a file may reveal its encoding (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format). More specific to text would be the byte order mark or BOM, if the file has one (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark).

I've never found documentation of just exactly what rules are used by read file to determine encoding. But I'd guess that it checks first for a BOM, then defaults to UTF-8 otherwise.

If you know the format of the text file, you can instruct read file to utilize a specific UTF encoding:

set docLines to paragraphs of (read srtFile as «class utf8») -- reads as UTF-8

set docLines to paragraphs of (read srtFile as Unicode text) -- reads as UTF-16

HTH,

Stan C.

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	>Encrypt/Decrypt a Text File (From: Eric Geoffroy <email@hidden>)
	>Read a text file (From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Read a text file (From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>)

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