Juvigy Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Hi Guys , I have a small app that copies data from .txt files to external 3rd party app hosted on citrix. The issue is that sometimes some users when pasting experience character abnormalities: coma, dash and bulets for example are changed to symbols like : – How can i avoid that when AutoIt opens the txt file and reads the data ? I am using FileOpen($filepath,0) and FileRead($file) then clipput , clipget and Send("^v")
pdd Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Might be a character encoding problem. Have you tried changing the mode of FileOpen?
Juvigy Posted May 15, 2012 Author Posted May 15, 2012 Might be a character encoding problem. Have you tried changing the mode of FileOpen? Change it to what? I havent tried it as testing is difficult - i dont have access to the PCs that have the issues.It may be due to the fact that there are different language and locations settings - russion, german ,spanish etc.How can i be independant of the encoding ?
jchd Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Smells like UTF-8 text to me. AutoIt uses UTF-16 (more precisely UCS-2). Use the relevant function to convert to/from: Func __UTF16toUTF8($sUTF16) Return(BinaryToString(StringToBinary($sUTF16, 4))) EndFunc Func __UTF8toUTF16($sUTF8) Return(BinaryToString(StringToBinary($sUTF8), 4)) EndFunc This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt)
armoros Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 I didn't knew that there was such an issue..... should we always do this conversion from UTF16 to UTF8 ? [font="verdana, geneva, sans-serif"] [/font]
jchd Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Only when interfacing to/from external application demanding UTF-8. This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt)
armoros Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Only when interfacing to/from external application demanding UTF-8.Thank you jchd... [font="verdana, geneva, sans-serif"] [/font]
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