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12934 :: Why the proc open with parameter fmWrite sometimes saves the file in encoding ANSI?

• MauroG (orginal) [2025-05-15T10:11:23+02:00] view original

  Hi,

  When creating a csv file with data taken from a database, the file is often created with UTF-8 encoding, but sometimes it is created with ANSI encoding.

  What does it depend on?

  The characters present in the file?

  Is there a way to force saving always with UTF-8 encoding?

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• Araq (orginal) [2025-05-15T10:19:57+02:00] view original

  It's neither ansi nor utf-8. It's a binary file and the tools detect the encoding based on some heuristics.

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• MauroG (orginal) [2025-05-15T10:38:13+02:00] view original

  Thanks for the quick response :-)

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