[WiX-users] UCS-2 Little Endian encoding of MSI Log file problem.
When I install an msi, I am keeping a log like so: c:\msiexec /i foo.msi /l* foo.log The problems is that when I open foo.log, it turns out it's in UCS-2 Little Endian encoding. Chaning the encoding in .NET is trivial, but we have a legacy app that needs to append to the log file, and it's in VB6. I'm having quite a bit of trouble converting the file to ASCII from UCS-2 Little Endian. Without the conversion, the file gets mangled with garbage. Is there a particular reason why UCS-2 Little Endian is used to create the MSI log file? I don't think VB6 has the programmatic capacity to natively read such an encodingI'm googling a solution now :-/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/UCS-2-Little-Endian-encoding-of-MSI-Log-file-problem.-tf2292707.html#a6368349 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] UCS-2 Little Endian encoding of MSI Log file problem.
Solution: Someone replied...the answer was to use the MultiByteToWideChar function to convert from ANSI to UCS-2 before appending to the file. Thanks! Roy Abou Assaly wrote: When I install an msi, I am keeping a log like so: c:\msiexec /i foo.msi /l* foo.log The problems is that when I open foo.log, it turns out it's in UCS-2 Little Endian encoding. Chaning the encoding in .NET is trivial, but we have a legacy app that needs to append to the log file, and it's in VB6. I'm having quite a bit of trouble converting the file to ASCII from UCS-2 Little Endian. Without the conversion, the file gets mangled with garbage. Is there a particular reason why UCS-2 Little Endian is used to create the MSI log file? I don't think VB6 has the programmatic capacity to natively read such an encodingI'm googling a solution now :-/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/UCS-2-Little-Endian-encoding-of-MSI-Log-file-problem.-tf2292707.html#a6371589 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
