Re: UTF-8 from Ubuntu not supported by OOoBasic on Windows?

On 02/14/11 11:09, Cor Nouws wrote:
> Take a text file with special characters (e.g. "Extréme")
> Saving on Ubuntu in gedit, the default text encoding is UTF-8.
>
> Reading the file in OOo Basic with 'Open sFile for Input' and showing
> the text is OK.

I assume Basic's Open uses as encoding for the given file the value of 
osl_getThreadTextEncoding (which is something like OOo's abstraction of 
the text encoding in use in the system, which typically happens to be 
UTF-8 in Ubuntu, but MS-1252 on a Western European Windows; the latter 
in turn is very similar to ISO 8859-1 and ISO 8859-15).  No idea if you 
can tell Basic to use a specific encoding for a given file.

-Stephan

> But reading the same file with OOoBasic on Windows, does not show the
> special character properly.
> If I save as ISO-8859-15 in gedit, it does show fine on Windows.
> But of course (?) not on Ubuntu.
>
> Is this a general OS problem with the text-encoding? Does OOoBasic do
> something wrong?