welles

I am actually working on an installation project at the moment and I am try to read an automatic generated unicode log file by using InstallScript. But unfortunately, the GetLine function in InstallScript only read Ascii file. I tried to manually convert the log file to Ascii by usning Notepad and it works. But I would like to automate the convertion. Can anyone help me?

Thanks,
Welles

big_k105

http://www.codersource.net/win32_unicode_ascii.html

This is all i can find maybe it will help maybe someone else will have a better idea

__________________
BIG K aka Kyle
Programming Forums
Kyle K Online

Please do not PM or email me programming questions. Post them in the forums instead.

Cipher

Give me the Unicode text and I will convet it using VB then send it back to you. If you want....

__________________
And there was much rejoicing... Yay....

welles

Hi Cipher,

Thanks for offering, but I need a mean to automatically convert a unicode file to a ascii file. I was able to convert a unicode file to ascii file manually using notepad, but that's no what I need since I have to do this everytime the user in the application.

Thanks,
Welles

ZenMasterJG

What were you planning on writing this in?
If my understanding of unicode is correct (which it might not be) the ASCII and Unicode values for characters are the same. That is, ASCII has characters 0-127, so Unicode maintained those values for the character set to maximize compatibility. So, usually you can just pretend that a Unicode string is ASCII and vise versa so long as your only using characters in the basic ASCII set.

karthik

Hi

i am looking for automatic conversion of unicode text file to ansi text file via perl
programming....If u happen to know please let me know.

Thanks
Karthik