On Apr 23, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Charles Yeomans wrote: > > On Apr 23, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Jim Wagner wrote: > >> >> On Apr 23, 2007, at 7:40 AM, Arnaud Nicolet wrote: >> >>> Le 23 avr. 07 à 16:35 Soir, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: >>> >>>> Note that if this binary data is actually text, it's up to you to >>>> keep track of what encoding it is. >>> >>> Can you tell me again how we can figure out the encoding of a text >>> for which we don't know the origin? I think you already explained, >>> but I'm not sure (I'm not even sure it's possible in RB). >>> _______________________________________________ >> >> The LR says that the result from GetSaveInfo is a string. Why does it >> need to be encoded? > > > The string returned is binary data. Whether or not you need to > encode it depends on how you store the string. For example, suppose > you store a list of recently-opened documents in XML format. Then > you would need to encode the alias data using Base64 to get an ASCII > representation of the data that would be valid XML data. > > Charles Yeomans > _______________________________________________ > Thanks. I was going to store it in a text file so I guess that makes sense.
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