[SOLVED] FileRead / FileReadLine a TSV doesn't return anything

[Seminko]

I have a TSV file that I want to read but can't seem to.

It opens without an error but fails on FIleRead giving me error 1 which, as per the documentation, happens when file is not opened in read mode (not my case, I use the 0 parameter with FileOpen) OR other error, which is pretty vague.

$sFilePath = "G:\Čest\test.tsv"
Local $hFileOpen = FileOpen($sFilePath, 0)
If @error Then
    MsgBox(1, "error fileopen", @error) ; getting no errors when opening the file
EndIf

$test = FileRead($hFileOpen)
If @error Then
    MsgBox(1, "error FileRead", @error) ; here's where I get the error
EndIf

FileClose($hFileOpen)

I googled and found a similar case where there we null characters in the binary. The example given to identify those chars was this one:

Local $h_open = FileOpen("G:\Čest\test.tsv", 16)
Local $s_binary = FileRead($h_open)
FileClose($h_open)
Local $i
For $i = 1 To BinaryLen($s_binary)
    If Execute(BinaryMid($s_binary, $i, 1)) = 0 Then
        MsgBox(16, "Oops", "Character: " & $i & " is a NULL char.")
    EndIf
Next

However, no MsgBox with null chars...

Any ideas why I can't read the file?

 

EDIT: I can't seem to read any file, even txt.

Edited January 25, 2020 by Seminko

[Seminko]

Found the issue. Leaving it here since it might be useful for others.

The actual filePath had a czech character - 'Č', so let's say 'G:\Čest\test.tsv'

I had my encoding set to Code Page Property instead of UTF-8.

For some reason fileopen didn't throw an error but fileread did.

Might that be a bug?

 

Obviously after changing the encoding to UTF-8 the problem went away.