Can you read and/or change the active code page of windows using LabVIEW?

[RobAfton]

Hello All,

I'm developing an application to be used in the United States and China.

My intention is to read in all my UI Captions from a text file with Unicode encoding (UTF-8) so that Chinese characters can be used.

My question is, can I check the current code page that LabVIEW is using in any other way than checking for a Byte Order Mark?

And beyond that, can I change the current code page that LabVIEW is using to read/write files?

I am using LabVIEW 2011.

Regards,

Rob Afton

GHSP

Electrical Engineering Intern - Test Lab

aftonr@ghsp.com

[Tim_W.]

Hi Rob,

I've been looking in to some character encoding resources for LabVIEW and I found a few things. I'm not sure if any of it will be directly applicable to what you're doing, but they may provide some insights.

Document Encoding Property (accessible from a Property Node, only works for certain document refnums such as XML)

Discussion Forum: Undocumented Function "Text to UTF-8" (a couple years old, more related to converting between encoding standards)

Tim W.

Applications Engineering

National Instruments

http://www.ni.com/support 

[smercurio_fc]

I would also suggest reading this: https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-10153

[RobAfton]

Thanks for the resources guys, but it turns out my problem fixed itself.

When I ran my program on a laptop from China, LabVIEW read/wrote the initialization file in the default encoding of the computer allowing it to display the Chinese characters.

The only downside to this was that I could not test this on my computer with default 1252 code page.