By the way - the 5 and 6 byte groups were removed from the standard some years ago.
In order to even attempt to come up with a direct conversion you'd almost have to know the language page code that is in use on the computer that created the file.
Either that or get with who ever owns the system building the files and tell them that they are NOT sending out pure ASCII comma separated files and ask for their assistance in deciphering what you are seeing at your end.
I have the same question Report abuse. You can vote as helpful, but you cannot reply or subscribe to this thread. It may be using Turkish while on your machine you're trying to translate into Italian, so the same characters wouldn't even appear properly - but at least they should appear improperly in a consistent manner.
Details required :. Thor Leach Hello, could you please share your document if that is not confidential to us?
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Sorry we can not reproduce this issue without your sample document, I would highly recommend you to raise a support ticket, connect with a support engineer to investigate it deeper. This thread is locked. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? Unfortunately, I have been unable to find a way to convert the Chinese document into actual Chinese characters. مشاركة سرير نوم ÙÙŠ الÙندق أبن زوجي let us know if you do not have support plan, we can help you to enable a free support ticket.
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I think you're just going to have to sit down and spend a lot of time 'decoding' what you're getting and create your own table. Skip to main content. But if when you read a byte and it's anything other than an ASCII character it indicates that it is either a byte in the middle of a multi-byte stream or it is the 1st byte مشاركة سرير نوم ÙÙŠ الÙندق أبن زوجي a mult-byte string.
Thor Leach.
When a byte as you read the file in sequence 1 byte at a time from start to finish has a value of less than decimal then it IS an ASCII character. Did you try running a test file through my code and looking at the output to see if it even looked reasonably close?
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Cancel Submit. Unless they're doing something strange at their مشاركة سرير نوم ÙÙŠ الÙندق أبن زوجي, 'standard' characters such as the apostrophe shouldn't even be within a multi-byte group.
Here's the entire ASCII character set - some such as 7 bell and 10 and 13 are not-printable since most below decimal value 27 are considered to be "command" codes. Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support.
