Property: CharacterFormat for Formatter

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Specifies the coding for interpreting the strings in the file.

Object.CharacterFormat

Object

Formatter
Object with this property

Object.CharacterFormat

Enumeration with read and write access and the following selection terms:

0	eUTF16	16-bit characters that allow Asian characters, for example.
1	eANSI	Extended ASCII character set (8-bit).
3	eSJIS	Shift-JIS character set for the Japanese language.
4	eUTF8	8-bit character set commonly used for encoding English texts.

Note If you do not specify the coding, it is specified automatically. The first two bytes in the file are checked. If the first two bytes contain 0xFEFF, this indicates UTF16 coding.

The following example reads a text channel. The text is UTF16-coded:

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File.Formatter.TrimCharacters = " "
File.Formatter.LineFeeds = vbNewLine
File.Formatter.Delimiters = ";"
File.Formatter.CharacterFormat = eUTF16
Dim oBlock: Set oBlock = File.GetStringBlock()
Dim oChn  : Set oChn = oBlock.Channels.Add("Texts", eString)
Dim oMyGrp: Set oMyGrp = Root.ChannelGroups.Add("MyChannelGroup")
Call oMyGrp.Channels.AddDirectAccessChannel(Channel)