I have a script which stores all my online contacts into a textfile(name,email,status and personalmessage). now, one of mye contacts(kristoffer) is using some special characters in his name, like the R with the circle around, which is causing some problems when I want to save the textfile. How do I avoid this?

Thanks

Have you tried changing the encoding of the text file to UTF-8?

how do I do that?

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Originally posted by runarius
how do I do that?

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that didn't help much.

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Originally posted by runarius
that didn't help much.

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tried setting it to unicode, nothing really happened. but I don't see how this could change anything, since isn't it the msn-plus-script that chooses the encoding and fileformat?

Also, the nickname I am trying to store holds alot of different odd characters. don't know which one of them causes the error.

It doesn't rally matter what the text-editor can see, I get an error in the debugger at the line where the function to store the nickname is.

the encoding affects it because if it isn't Unicode or UTF-8, the characters will just be shown as question marks...

You could also try opening the text document in Wordpad as I said above in my edited post

it doesn't get stored at all becouse of the error... all other nicknames gets stored without any problems.

Could you please post the code you're using so I can look at the functions...?

Or maybe you could just PM me all of the code so I can try to get it to work

couldn't figure out much from that... tried using it, but I cannot write those characters in the script so I have no way of searching through the string which holds the nickname in an attempt to replace the symbols by something else.

here is the code:

code:

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function AddLineToFile (file, line) {
  if (!fsObj.FileExists(MsgPlus.ScriptFilesPath + '\\' + file))
    var fileObj = fsObj.OpenTextFile(MsgPlus.ScriptFilesPath + '\\' + file, 2, 1);
     else
       var fileObj = fsObj.OpenTextFile(MsgPlus.ScriptFilesPath + '\\' + file, 8, 0);
  fileObj.WriteLine(line);
  fileObj.Close();

}

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You could try this, don't think it will work but its cleaner and nicer...

code:

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function AddLineToFile (file, line)
{
    if (!fsObj.FileExists(MsgPlus.ScriptFilesPath + '\\' + file))
    {
            var fileObj = fsObj.OpenTextFile(MsgPlus.ScriptFilesPath + '\\' + file, 2, 1);
    }
         else
    {
               var fileObj = fsObj.OpenTextFile(MsgPlus.ScriptFilesPath + '\\' + file, 8, 0);
          fileObj.WriteLine(MsgPlus.RemoveFormatCodes(line));
          fileObj.Close();
    }
}

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code:

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str.replace(/CharacterToReplace/, "NewCharacter");

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Have you tried the RemoveFormatCodes function?
It's in the scripting documentation.
Have fun!

® is the registered trademark character it isn't a Plus! Character used for formatting.

People if you don't know what you are talking about don't post as you are only going to confuse things.

What is the error message in the debug window?

Can you post the exact name of the contact from the Contact Information Window (in a conversation type /info or from the Contact List right click the contact choose Messenger Plus! Extras > Contact Information)

My code works without a problem

code:

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function OnEvent_Initialize(MessengerStart){
    //loop through the contacts
    for (var e = new Enumerator(Messenger.MyContacts); !e.atEnd(); e.moveNext()){
        // write the contacts name to the file test.txt in the scripts path
        AddLineToFile ('test.txt', e.item().Name);
    }
}

function AddLineToFile (file, line) {
    // declare fsObj has FilesystemObject
    var fsObj = new ActiveXObject('Scripting.FileSystemObject');
    //check if the file exists already
    var fileexists = fsObj.FileExists(MsgPlus.ScriptFilesPath + '\\' + file);
    //open the file
    var fileObj = fsObj.OpenTextFile(MsgPlus.ScriptFilesPath + '\\' + file, (fileexists ? 8 : 1), true, (-1) /* UNICODE */);
    //try to write the name to the file
    try { fileObj.WriteLine(line); }
    catch (err) {
        //Oops we have an error lets output the name and the error
        Debug.Trace(line);
        Debug.Trace(err.description);
    }
   //close the file
    fileObj.Close();
    //unset the fsObj
    fsObj = null;
}

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tried to post his name here but just got this:

Қ®‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‭‌‍istoҒҒer


looks like alot of rubbish...  Anyway, it is suppose to spell Kristoffer, but it has a special K,R,I and F's. I figured out a way to turn them into normal characters. The only problem is I have to find a list over ALL symbols not supported and throw them into my script. hmm... sounds like a big job.

code:

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javascript:document.write("Қ%C2%AE‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‭‌‍istoҒҒer");

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uhm... it seems that there is alot of characters inbetween the R and the I or something? wtf?

Oops matty made a mistake of his own...

code:

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function OnEvent_Initialize(MessengerStart){
    //loop through the contacts
    for (var e = new Enumerator(Messenger.MyContacts); !e.atEnd(); e.moveNext()){
        // write the contacts name to the file test.txt in the scripts path
        AddLineToFile ('test.txt', e.item().Name);
    }
}

function AddLineToFile (file, line) {
    // declare fsObj has FilesystemObject
    var fsObj = new ActiveXObject('Scripting.FileSystemObject');
    //check if the file exists already
    var fileexists = fsObj.FileExists(MsgPlus.ScriptFilesPath + '\\' + file);
    //open the file
    var fileObj = fsObj.OpenTextFile(MsgPlus.ScriptFilesPath + '\\' + file, (fileexists ? 8 : 2 /* Previously was set to 1 which is ForReading */), true, (-1) /* UNICODE */);
    //try to write the name to the file
    try { fileObj.WriteLine(line); }
    catch (err) {
        //Oops we have an error lets output the name and the error
        Debug.Trace(line);
        Debug.Trace(err.description);
    }
    //close the file
    fileObj.Close();
    //unset the fsObj
    fsObj = null;
}

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anybody that has a solution to this one?

He corrected it already? see post above yours

Right here: Matty's reply to headache: Special characters.

It be more appropriate to use fsObj.CreateTextFile(MsgPlus.ScriptFilesPath + '\\' + file, true)

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