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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")

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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 ?

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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

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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 here
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PCRE 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.
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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)

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