Hi all! I have a question related to garbled characters. I have issue with special characters and file encodings. There is strings where is special characters like

ö

or

ä

. And NetSuite shows those now wrong. My file says in Notepad++ that it is ANSI / CR LF encoded, but when in script I check

fileObj.encoding

it says that file is UTF-8. Here is test example with string:

Test Characteröä

How could I solve this issue? The file comes automatically to my script from server, so I can't manually change the encoding...

It you can't specify the encoding while uploading the file, you might need to read the contents and then convert it. I think I've used N/encode-module in the past to convert it to the correct format.

honestly depends on how you are getting the file in script

I couldn't make it work the way @Watz suggested. @battk I have the file in File cabinet and I just use

file.load

. Then I use the

fileObj.lines.iterator()

to go trough the lines. I tried to look at the supported encodings. But is any of those even close to the ANSI / CR LF coding my file seems to be?

ANSI / CR LF is not really the name of an encoding

hmm, I think my example was from when we received a UTF-8 file without file-extension that got interpreted as "OTHERBINARY". Unfortunately it didn't apply to this case.

@battk so how should I change the encoding? What kind of operations I need to do in script? If we asume that I have file in filecabinet that is WINDOWS_1252 and I want to change that to UTF-8?

whatever is uploading the file into the file cabinet needs to set the correct encoding

So there is no way to change coding of the file with suitescript?

you can change it, but the contents have already been destroyed by the time you can

Ok, thanks!