[erlang-questions] UTF8

[Alex Arnon]

My guess would be that 332 is not a valid value for a byte :)

2008/2/12 Dustin Whitney <dustin.whitney@REDACTED>:

> Yeah, that worked thanks!  I had tried what you did, but it did not work
> with the UTF-32 data.  Do you know why?  And how do you suppose my data was
> turned into UTF-32.  I got the data originally from an HTTP GET request that
> returned a UTF-8 encoded XML file.  The file its self says it's UTF-8, and
> the header tuple said the document was using the UTF-8 charset.  Does Erlang
> convert the data automatically?
> Thanks!
> -Dustin
>
>
> On Feb 12, 2008 2:59 AM, Hasan Veldstra <hasan.veldstra@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> >
> > > How can I write [332,116,97,44,32,71,117,110,109,97] to a file so
> > > that when I open it up it looks like "Ōta, Gunma"?
> >
> >
> > -module(ftest).
> > -export([run/0]).
> >
> > run() ->
> >     Data = [197,140,116,97,44,32,71,117,110,109,97],
> >     file:write_file("ftest.txt", list_to_binary(Data)).
> >
> >
> > Text is just numbers when stored to disk.
> >
> > By the way, the list of numbers you originally posted is "Ōta, Gunma"
> > encoded in UTF-32, not UTF-8. It's in UTF-8 in my example.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
>
>
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