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This is what i'm trying to figure out...

$hFile = FileOpen("temp.txt", 128);

$cFile = FileRead($hfile);

I open temp.txt file (that contains UTF-8 string) as unicode UTF8 then I read it into $cFile.

The $cFile encoding is ascii now?! Then I try to StringSplit the content and send it

over http post method. The server gets ascii encoding in such case.

Should I encode it back to UTF-8 before post? looks a little strange...

first of all how do I encode it back to UTF-8? and won't I lose the characters

from such conversion?

Cannot figure out why the $cFile encoding is ascii after FileOpen 128 flag?

Thank you!

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After reading the file, your $cFile variable holds its contents. AutoIt use Unicode to store strings, so it's technically a UTF16-LE string.

As a matter of fact, it's generally impossible to perform a lossless conversion from Unicode to ANSI. Unicode encoding is irrelevant here.

Now how exactly do you post your string(s) is where the issue lies.

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Now how exactly do you post your string(s) is where the issue lies.

before posting I do StringSplit content of the $cFile, then I use winhttp udf.

It looks as follow:

$text = StringSplit("+343+", $cFile, 1);
$hOpen = _WinHttpOpen();
$hConnect = _WinHttpConnect($hOpen, "example.local", 80);
$hRequest = _WinHttpOpenRequest($hConnect, "POST", "mcatapi/index.php", Default, "", "*/*");
$data = "mode=language&text=" & $text[1];
_WinHttpSendRequest($hRequest, "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" & @CRLF, $WINHTTP_NO_REQUEST_DATA, StringLen($data), 0);
_WinHttpWriteData($hRequest, $data);
_WinHttpReceiveResponse($hRequest);
ConsoleWrite(_WinHttpReadData($hRequest));
_WinHttpCloseHandle($hRequest);
_WinHttpCloseHandle($hConnect);
_WinHttpCloseHandle($hOpen);

Interesting thing here, I tried to post $text with text string I entered in autoit editor: $text = "some text in russian";

and i got right encoding at the server side which has en_US.UTF-8 locale.

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Look again at _WinHttpWriteData function header:

; #FUNCTION# ;===============================================================================
;
; Name...........: _WinHttpWriteData
; Description ...: Writes request data to an HTTP server.
; Syntax.........: _WinHttpWriteData($hRequest, $data [, $iMode])
; Parameters ....: $hRequest - Valid handle returned by _WinHttpSendRequest().
;               $data - Data to write.
;               [b]$iMode - Integer representing writing mode. Default is 0 - write ANSI string.[/b]
; Return values .: Success - Returns 1
;                       - @extended receives the number of bytes written.
;                       - Sets @error to 0
;               Failure - Returns 0 and sets @error:
;               |1 - DllCall failed.
; Author ........: trancexx, ProgAndy
; Modified.......:
; Remarks .......: $data variable is either string or binary data to write.
;               $iMode can have these values:
;               |0 - to write ANSI string
;               |1 - to write binary data
; Related .......:
; Link ..........; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384120(VS.85).aspx
; Example .......; Yes
;
;==========================================================================================
That means that the string is silently converted to ANSI (using your client locale) before being sent.

Now for the server locale: it uses UTF-8 encoding (meaning that it will gracefully process any UTF-8 encoded string) and other locale settings 'date/time, numbers, ... format as per en-US.

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That means that the string is silently converted to ANSI (using your client locale) before being sent.

Now for the server locale: it uses UTF-8 encoding (meaning that it will gracefully process any UTF-8 encoded string) and other locale settings 'date/time, numbers, ... format as per en-US.

i also tryed _WinHttpWriteData($hRequest, $data, 1);

with no result... the content was in ascii.

ps: there was a typo in my last code post: $text = StringSplit("+343+", $cFile, 1); -> $text = StringSplit($cFile, "+343+", 1);

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With the "binary" flag, the data is sent verbatim, that is as the string of bytes which code for UTF16-LE AUtoIt data. That isn't what you need either.

Try converting your AutoIt string to UTF-8 before sending it (using _WinAPI_WideCharToMultiByte with codepage = 65001)

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With the "binary" flag, the data is sent verbatim, that is as the string of bytes which code for UTF16-LE AUtoIt data. That isn't what you need either.

Try converting your AutoIt string to UTF-8 before sending it (using _WinAPI_WideCharToMultiByte with codepage = 65001)

Wow! works now! :huh2: Thank you so much!!!!

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Fine!

Good luck for the rest.

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