Hi
Is it so, that command "filereadline()" cannot use all UFT-8 characters? I have always filtered ÄÖäöÅå characters from the input data. Now I noticed that it is possible use those characters "inside" FlexSim, but when I try to read them from text file, it is not succeed.
Thanks @Phil BoBo ! The problem is in the text file, that I'm reading in. It has ANSI encoding as it should be UTF8. It is strange, that Notepad shows the scandinavian characters even if the file has ansi encoding.
Now I have another problem: if the text file is saved with utf8 encoding, the string/character handling is different in FlexSim. Wit your example file, the text.length returns 31 but there are only 17 characters. Also command "text.substr(24,2)" returns only "ä" and "text.substr(24,2)" returns "äö".
I can replace the scandinavian characters out like I have always done, but if there is a simple configuration trick, it would be nice.
Can you post your example file with which you're struggling?
Yes there are 17 characters, but .length returns the number of bytes of which there are 31, since some of the characters use more than 1 byte. Here's the documentation. You'll see there that it recommends using the .split() function to create an array of characters to account for these encoding inconsistencies and allow you to access characters by index.
For example in Phil's file the only single byte characters are the space and those in "Test" - the reset are either 3 or 2 bytes:
是 - 3 bytes
ö - 2 bytes
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