Read non-UTF8 file

Nrgyzer nrgyzer at gmail.com
Sat Feb 19 05:42:05 PST 2011


== Auszug aus Stewart Gordon (smjg_1998 at yahoo.com)'s Artikel
> On 13/02/2011 21:49, Nrgyzer wrote:
> <snip>
> > It compiles and works as long as the returned char-array/string of f.readLine() doesn't
> > contain non-UTF8 character(s). If it contains such chars, writeln() doesn't write
> > anything to the console. Is there any chance to read such files?
> Please post sample input that shows the problem, and the output generated by replacing the
> writeln call with
>      writefln("%s", cast(ubyte[]) convertToUTF8(f.readLine()));
> so that we can see what it is actually reading in.
> Stewart.

My file contains the following:

ä
ö
ü

Now... and with writefln("%s", cast(ubyte[]) convertToUTF8(f.readLine())); I get the following:

[195, 131, 164]
[195, 131, 182]
[195, 131, 188]


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