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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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Open the text document in Notepad, go to File --> Save File As.. and in the Save File As Dialog you'll see a drop-down labeled "Encoding:", select UTF-8 then save over the text document

that didn't help much.

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Originally posted by runarius
that didn't help much.

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What do you mean by much? Didn't help at all?

Anyway, you could try Unicode encoding, sorry if I'm not really helping at all. Also, if that doesn't work, you could maybe try changing the file format...

Unless your text editor isn't displaying them properly, try opening the text document in Wordpad

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