If On Open File BOM is npt found then i have to treat the file as UTF-8. If BOM compatible with UTF-16 is Found then load it as UTF-16 If BOM is not compatible with UTF-16 then post error message."Not Compatible"
How can I implement all these conditions at once. As the criteria for all is only BOM. how can I know if BOM is found or not. Kindly let me know.
I have a problem reading ID3v2 text identifier tags when they are encoded in unicode. If i update the tags using winamp the tags are encoded in UTF-16 with BOM. When i try to read the tag i step through each byte and use chr(byte) to get the character that that byte represents. But when the bytes are unicode i get some characters (shown below) as the first two characters:
The remaining characters are correct, it's just these 2 first ones.
What are these for? and how can i get rid of them or read the bytes as unicode characters? i've tried reading the ID3 website and many other sites too but i don't know what to do. i can check the text-encoding byte in that tag frame to determine whether or not the tag is encoded in unicode or ISO-8859-1 but i don't know what to do next.
When a user types into a VB.Net textbox, I want to detect the key press (assuming I cannot read the text from the textbox after its written). This is easy for English (by using e.KeyChar or Keys.[A, B, C, ...etc]). However, if I change my default keyboard in Windows from English to another language, say Arabic or Farsi, still the English characters are detected (although Arabic or Farsi is being typed in).
View 3 Repliesiam using the below code to check text change in clipboard but its not supported with unicode chracters like ا ب ج is there any way to add support for unicode text or is there any other way to do same work?
#Region " Definitions "
'Constants for API Calls...
Private Const WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD As Integer = &H308
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I have a scenario where i have to Parse a UTF-16 Encoded CSV file and populate a treeview using VB.Net. I need to parse the CSV files which may also support other languages. how to proceed on this and what classes of .net I can use to solve this issue.
In VB.Net we do not have a provision to parse a UTF-16 file But There is a provision for reading UTF-8 encoded file.The method is OpenText(). I want a similar method but it should parse or read a UTF-16 encoded file.
I was trying to read some file that is encoded with UTF-8 and save it as UTF-16 (Unicode) but it seems not to be fully working as all accents seem to vanish or are encoded to something that can not be read.
Here is the code that i am using:
Public Function GetFileContents(ByVal FullPath As String, Optional ByRef ErrInfo As String = "") As Object
Dim strContents As String
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I know pretty much how to save information into a text file from runtime VB2005. However, I wish to be able to write the information into any kind of form of file that cannot be simply opened and read by anyone (such as text file can be). Is there anyway that VB2005 can do this?
View 3 RepliesI make a program that want to read texts into collection class. The program need to know whether the text file is in unicode or not. What is the vb.net code to test whether a text file is in unicode or not? Is there a vb.net code that allow me to read text file without worrying whether it's unicode or not?
View 1 RepliesI seem to have lost my old account on here (forgot username) so I had to make a new one.I've been able to make some working applications but I am still inexperienced and I have fallen to another problem. I am trying to read a unicode (UTF16) file and have all the contents displayed in a textbox. The file for example if opened with notepad shows all the textHere is the generic code:
Code:
If OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
Dim FILE_NAME As String = OpenFileDialog1.FileName
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I have a text file saved in ANSI encoding (Russian language), how to save this file in Unicode?
View 7 RepliesAfter uploading an image file (with Greek filename) on my website the image was converted to•1.gif (Chinese to me)
I am using this one to download the file from my winForms application[code]...
Now how can i download the file, since the filename has changed on the server side?
I want to save text in some encoding type.. I want to do it without StreamWriter class. I looked for richtextbox but I couldnt see how to do it. Is there any way to save text in utf-8 or unicode from richbox ?
View 1 RepliesHow should I modify the following Vb.Net code to write str to the file in unicode?
Do I need to convert str to Unicode before writing to the file?[code]...
I made a batch script using VB.NET which deletes shortcut on my desktop. The problem is that shortcut title contains unicode characters so batch doesn't work. However if I remove that unicode character from the shortcut and batch script it does delete the shortcut. How can I make it delete the shortcut w/o removing that unicode character?
tempstring = "@echo off"
tempstring = tempstring & vbCrLf & "del " & Chr(34) & My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.Desktop & "My shortcutâ„¢ 1.lnk" & Chr(34)
tempstring = tempstring & vbCrLf & "del %0"
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How to encode string and save using vb.net code? sound don't understand, right? let's say i want to save my string(contain unicode) to file like in NOTEPAD when you write unicode and save, you have to choose encoding = Unicode in order to see the same character when you open it later. I want to do this can any one tell me(i need code to encrypt string)?
View 1 RepliesCan I compare a char array with unicode Font file?I want to display in the richtextbox what are the characters are exits & not exists in that font file?
View 2 RepliesI ran across my first unicode data, and I am not sure what to do with it. I read the unicode text from a binary file using the ReadBytes method, because ReadChars threw an exception when it tried it. Well, long story short, I have found a way to work with the data, I can convert it using a small Function I wrote, which goes something like this: [Code] And this works wonderfully. It just throws away anything not in the ASCII range, including the BOM at the start of the unicode data.
But I would guess that this method is not very universal and probably not the best way. Are there any VB functions available to do this sort of thing? I was able to find something called Text.Encoding, but there didn't seem to be a reverse of that not that I found anyhow. Any ideas?
I am trying to use Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.TextFieldParser for parsing any format of tab delimited text file that user may have and show the data in web page in tabular fashion.I have sample tsv file with text qualifiers such as quotes saved in different encoding styles for different platforms such as pc, unix, mac saved using textpad. and I am trying to parse these using TextFieldParser. It works for all PC files but fails for mac.
View 2 RepliesI have two textboxes (InputTextBox, OutputTextbox).In the InputTextBox, if I type "a" I need to display tamil letter "அ" in OutputTextBox.For the above requirements, I tried like below,
View 4 RepliesI have a data table being returned that populates a repeater. One of the fields has the & character in the data and displays perfectly within the asp:literal on the screen. The source shows the & character un-encoded.My question is this: Does it NEED to be encoded? A co-worker is insisting that it must be encoded in order to be "HTML compliant". But it works perfectly for display purposes. Is this REALLY required for any type of compliance that I should even be worrying about?
View 1 RepliesI have a challange to convert the detected Encoding format of Text file to selected Encoding format. Like if the detected file is in Utf-8 and if user want to convert the encoding to Utf-16 or ANCII or Unicode. It will happen on one button click and the file will convert to the desired output encoding format.
Right Now I am able to detect the encoding but conversion not happening.
How can I generate a UTF-8 Encoded XML string?
View 2 RepliesI have an example of standard text (in Hex form) in a specific encoding (selected by the user). And I have a weirdly encoded text which is in the same encoding but a little different. How do I convert the Standard to the encoded Hex?
Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5) Example:
## 12 91 BB BE BA B8 C0 2E 20 CD BA C0 B0 BD B0 20 B8 20 BA BB B0 B2 2E <- ALTERNATIVE
B1 DB DE DA D8 E0 2E 20 ED DA E0 D0 DD D0 20 D8 20 DA DB D0 D2 2E <- STANDARD
Diff. from Standard (in Decimal): -32
Hebrew Visual (ISO-8859-8) Example:
## 1C 0B E0 E2 D9 DC EA 20 DE E1 DA 20 D5 DE E7 E9 D9 DD <- ALTERNATIVE
F0 F2 E9 EC FA 20 EE F1 EA 20 E5 EE F7 F9 E9 ED <- STANDARD
Diff. from Standard (in Decimal): -16
I am writing some rest calls to the LinkedIn API using web request and have hit an encoding issue.The LinkedIn API takes requires an encoded URI as one of the parameters on the lookup i am trying to run.
We are calling the api through .Net's WebRequest.Create; and when we pass in the URI it decodes it and as a result we can't get the data from the call. Im trying to open a URI like this[URL]..Is there a mechanism in the webrequest class to stop it decoding the passed in URI; or a work around for this?
I have to read a 2D barcode that's encoded with base256. When I scan the barcode, it sends different characters as it comes from the keyboard and it changes the focus, turns visual studio in full screen, give the command to send to printer from notepad++.
I guess it reads ALT + TAB, CTRL + P, ALT + SHIFT, etc. and i can't capture all the bytes from the barcode.
I tried to capture the event on textbox KeyPress method with e.handled = True and e.keyChar added to the bytes()
On form.load I set:
Me.KeyPreview = True
And tried also on form.KeyDown with no luck.
Question: In order to store logos in a database and display them dynamically in ms-reporting service, I need to base64 encode the image. It doesn't work with binary saved images, due to MS limitations...
Now my question: Which datatype do I use? Varchar, nvarchar or text? I guess varchar would be good enough, since base64 encoded, but images might be larger than 4000 characters...
I need to pass encoded string to php page. To convert string to iso:Dim result As Byte() = Encoding.Convert(Encoding.UTF8, Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1"), input)
I have this code to pass string, but how I must do it to pass Byte (variable result) instead of the string (variable MyVarString)?
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I'm using this code to send encoded text to URL. This code is correct? Because if I send the same encoded string using PHP runs fine, but not in VB.NET
baseurl = "http://myurl.com/mypage.php"
client = NewWebClient
client.Headers.Add("user-agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET
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For stopping by, is there a way to detect when a sound file (WAV) stops playing?
e.g.> There is a FORM with a PLAY button on which is coded to play a WAV file. But how does VB detect when the WAV file has finished playing?
Here is the code I have on the PLAY button
My.Computer.Audio.Play("test.wav", AudioPlayMode.BackgroundLoop)
I have come across some Base64 conversion functions in .net(FromBase64.string etc). What i want is, for a sample, i have a base 64 encoded string as
"48YwojCi4yaiow==".
I need to convert this string to the corresponding Hexadecimal text(The sample stands for "Thisistest" in hex text) The below link is an online converter from base64 to hexadecimal text. If you give the same base64 encoded data in the link , click on convert, the one that is seen below "Hexadecimal text" is what I need.
[URL]
Is there a standard library function in vb.net which does this? Converting a base 64 data to a hexadecimal text?