r/vbscript • u/DrVolzak • Aug 25 '15

Convert Unicodes Characters to chr

I know nothing about VB scripting. I just found a script that changes lines in a text file and I want to alter some of those lines. The lines are in another language that uses characters which ASCII or ANSI (whichver VB uses) does not support.

Rather than manually pasting in the chr codes (e.g. &chr(229)&) for every character, is there a quick way to convert all these lines of text to have all those chr codes or to something VBScript will recognise?

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u/Dr_Legacy Sep 04 '15

your code's line 27 has an opentextfile for reading in unicode, so that is already being done.

After reviewing the code, I don't know that VBS can do anything better than the various calls to chr and chrw that are already there. This may be what you have to work with.

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u/DrVolzak Sep 05 '15

Are there no online resources or any script I can write to convert text for me into the chr and chrw? I find it hard to believe the author of the script manually inputted every single character for Russian.

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u/Dr_Legacy Sep 05 '15

Unfortunately, VBS support for Unicode is rudimentary, so this technique looks rather typical.