How can I write to a file with different encoding?

23 Jan 2006 9:02 AM

Willy S

How can I write to the same file with different encoding?
The file has records where different fields in each record has different
encoding (because of use in different modules in a production machine).
Open and close several times (with different encoding) for each record is
not whery efficient.

23 Jan 2006 9:28 AM

Vadym Stetsyak

You can open file once, and write to multiple positions.
You can write bytes that were obtained with special encoding, Lets suppose
that you have 2 fields with
UTF-8 and ASCII

Then you can obtain bytes with appropriate encoding
byte[] field1 = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(field1);
byte[] field2 = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(field2);

Now you get two fields encoded with 2 different encodings

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"Willy S" <Wil***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How can I write to the same file with different encoding?
> The file has records where different fields in each record has different
> encoding (because of use in different modules in a production machine).
> Open and close several times (with different encoding) for each record is
> not whery efficient.
>

25 Jan 2006 4:46 AM

Mihai N.

> The file has records where different fields in each record has different
> encoding (because of use in different modules in a production machine).

This is really-really bad internationalization design.
Go with a for of Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16, whatever) and you will not be
mistaken.

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Mihai Nita [Microsoft MVP, Windows - SDK]
http://www.mihai-nita.net
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