Encodings changed?

[Markus Winter <markus_winter@online.de>]

Hi all,

if I have a text file created on a Mac, drop it into my project, and put it
into an editfield with

EditField1.text = MacFile

then it displays correctly in RB2007R3 ­ it seems MacRoman is used as the
default encoding.

see http://ahatfullofsky.comuv.com/files/bugs/RB2007R3.jpg

However in RB2009R2 the display is quite different ­ see

http://ahatfullofsky.comuv.com/files/bugs/RB2009R2.jpg

Does anyone know the exact nature of the change and when it happened? I
presume that now UTF8 is used as the default encoding, and not the system
one?

A second question: from the LR I adapted the following code:

  Dim f As FolderItem
  Dim t As TextInputStream
  Dim s As String
  Dim enc as TextEncoding
  f=GetOpenFolderItem("text") //file type defined via the FileType class
  t=f.OpenAsTextFile
  s=t.ReadAll
  t.Close
  enc=s.Encoding
  Exception err as NilObjectException
    MsgBox err.message

to 

  Dim enc as TextEncoding
  s = Macfile
  enc=s.Encoding  
  Exception err as NilObjectException
    MsgBox err.message

Although enc is Nil no error is raised and no MsgBox is being displayed.

If I however test with

  if enc = Nil then
    MsgBox "No encoding defined"
  else
    MsgBox enc.internetName
  end if

then I get the message box. What is the difference here?

Thanks

Markus




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