reading Hebrew from TXT file

Question

Am having trouble reading Hebrew strings from .txt file.

For testing, I create the file in Notepad, with Hebrew and English characters, and save it with either UTF-8, Unicode, and Unicode Big Endian encoding. None of them works. A test SB program shows the Hebrew as a bunch of question marks, while perfectly showing the others.

What am I doing wrong? Missing some arcane command is SB? Can Notepad++ help?

Thank you all.

Answer 1

Hi ilanel, can you show the Hebrew text here?  SB can read UTF-8 only.  I could save a UTF-8 file with "שלום עולם" using Notepad and show the result with following SB program.

path = "c:\Users\Nonki\Desktop\Hebrew.txt"
txt = File.ReadContents(path)
GraphicsWindow.DrawText(10, 10, txt)

And I use Windows 10.

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Nonki Takahashi

Answer 2

Thank you, Takahashi-san.

I volunteer with a bunch of STEM-oriented high schoolers.

The need to make progress, and other pressing issues, led me to a compromise, whereby the Hebrew will be plugged into the main program off-line, rather than at execution.

I will get back to this thread for the sake of learning.

Thank you again.

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ilanel