Reading a file as UTF-16 (Unicode) format instead of UTF-8.

KenCriss

KenCriss

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Hi there. I maintain a tool that reads text files. I recently got this message from a user. The file is now "UTF-16 (Unicode) format instead of UTF-8." Now the text files have a chr(255) and chr(254) at the beginning of the file that throws off the fixed column length of everything else on the record. I currently open the file as Open Input. Should I change it to use Open as Binary or something like that? I have never run into a text file like this and am wondering if VBA has a way to interpret these files...? Any advise would be appreciated.
 

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It is possible to take full control of text file import.
Here is some code. not exactly what you want, but you could adapt it so that row 1 of the text file is not imported.

eg.

If ToRow >1 Then
row to worksheet
End If

or check if 'TextLine' contains chr(255) with InStr() function.
 
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