Issues with German characters

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jcperezh
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Issues with German characters

Post by jcperezh » 01 Dec 2022, 14:00

I'm having problems with German characters (äöü) how could it change it to ANSI? Thxs


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boiler
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Re: Issues with German characters

Post by boiler » 01 Dec 2022, 14:15

Instead of changing those characters to their ANSI equivalents, have you tried saving your script using "UTF-8 with BOM" encoding? You may be able to use those characters as-is that way.

jcperezh
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Re: Issues with German characters

Post by jcperezh » 04 Dec 2022, 09:11

boiler wrote:
01 Dec 2022, 14:15
Instead of changing those characters to their ANSI equivalents, have you tried saving your script using "UTF-8 with BOM" encoding? You may be able to use those characters as-is that way.
Already done that (standard for all my scripts). Here is the DllCall (I think) which should be call in another way. 😣

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Re: Issues with German characters

Post by jcperezh » 04 Dec 2022, 09:58

boiler wrote:
01 Dec 2022, 14:15
Instead of changing those characters to their ANSI equivalents, have you tried saving your script using "UTF-8 with BOM" encoding? You may be able to use those characters as-is that way.
I am so sorry, you are right. i didint check every script i was using and one was UTF. Thank you

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