ASP classic filesystem object turns retrieved xml into Chinese characters

[grotgod]

Hello;

I have a pretty interesting problem here.

I read an xml file from the server using the fileSystem object. However...the text "magically" turn into Chinese characters.

If I take a look at the xml file in notepad it seems fine (normal English xml), but as soon as I read the individual lines of the file using the filesystem object I get the weird characters.

The code I use to access the file is pretty standard:

var FileObj,this_file;
var txt_arr = new Array();

FileObj = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
this_file = FileObj.OpenTextFile(Server.MapPath("xmlfile.xml") );

while(!this_file.AtEndOfStream)
{
txt_arr[txt_arr.length] = this_file.ReadLine();
}

Response.Write(txt_arr);

Has anybody ever come across something like this before?

[grotgod]

A solution for the above problem has been found and published at

http://aspmessageboard.com/showthrea...265#post898265

[jhardman]

Sorry it took me a while to get back to you, but glad you found an answer. For those who don't wnat to follow the link, the FSO automatically opens new docs as ASCII, which is a problem if the file was unicode, sol'n follows:

this_file  = FileObj.OpenTextFile(Server.MapPath("mediaeasy.xml"),1,-1)