Unicode - Encode LC field for export to txt?
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 3:45 pm
Hi,
In LC 7.x, where Unicode is baked in to LC, is it still necessary to encode text from a LC field when it is being exported to a text file? (Text could be from any language.)
I ask because I read a comment by one of the LC developers that "any time you do I/O to a file or socket, you should say what encoding you want..."
Also, if the answer is "yes", which is better to use, UTF-8 or UTF-16?
Thanks,
Tom Bodine
In LC 7.x, where Unicode is baked in to LC, is it still necessary to encode text from a LC field when it is being exported to a text file? (Text could be from any language.)
I ask because I read a comment by one of the LC developers that "any time you do I/O to a file or socket, you should say what encoding you want..."
Also, if the answer is "yes", which is better to use, UTF-8 or UTF-16?
Thanks,
Tom Bodine