Distinguishing UNICODE and ASCII text files 1

[jonpw]

Well, here's another UNICODE problem!

I need to be able to read/write UNICODE text files.

I am being particularly lazy at the moment and just using CStdioFile::ReadString() which works fine with plain old ASCII, but spits the dummy with UNICODE files!

- yes my program is compiled with _UNICODE
- my OS is WinXP, and its configured correctly so I can see Japanese/Chinese etc.

So now the questions:
1) does anyone know if CStdioFile will cope with UNICODE text files?
2) does anyone know how to programmatically distinguish UNICODE files from ASCII text files?

Thanks for your help.

 

[williamu]

Once you have read your file you need to check to see if the byteorder mark is set in the file.

You can use the IsTextUnicode(...) function to do this.

HTH

William
Software Engineer
ICQ No. 56047340