Using streams with Russian language

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Rustam Ibragimov · Aug 5, 2016

Hello, guys.

I need to copy the text from one stream to another filestream and save it. I am using

do fileStream.CopyFromAndSave(rtn.Code)

However, if "rtn" stream contains Russian characters I get something like "???". Is there any way to convert stream to Unicode? Something like $zc(str, "O", "UTF8") for streams.

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Tomas Vaverka Oct 3, 2016 to Rustam Ibragimov

For file character streams you need to specify TranslateTable property, which is internal translation table based on your locale.

For translation to utf-8 you need to set:

 set  fileStream  =  ##class( %FileCharacterStream). %New()
 set  fileStream .Filename  = fileLocation

 set fileStream .TranslateTable ="UTF8"

 set status  = fileStream .CopyFromAndSave (rtn .Code )

It should help.

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2016-08-05T04:25:59-04:00

As you have not showed full example of your code, I suggest that you use wrong class for fileStream.

For any text's you should use Character's stream, such as %Stream.FileCharacter, %Stream.GlobalCharacter

score 0 · Answer 2 · 2016-08-05T04:30:21-04:00

fileStream is of type %FileCharacterStream and rtn.Code is of type %CharacterStream

This is the code:

set rtn = ##class(%RoutineMgr).%OpenId(fileName)

// write content to file
set fileStream = ##class(%FileCharacterStream).%New()
set fileStream.Filename = fileLocation

set status = fileStream.CopyFromAndSave(rtn.Code)