Writing to file, UTF-8

[Trond Hoyem]

Hi

I have made this script that is testing my installation and writing the result to a file and then sends it to my email. The only problem I still have is that the messages written to the report contains some Nordic characters, and that returns some ugly results like "PÃ¥drag ble ikke endret under varmetest".

Is there any way to set the character set to the file when writing to it?

Creating the file itself:

Code:

errorFile = string.format('Feilmeldinger_%s.csv', os.date('%d-%m-%Y',log_start))

The code for adding a line to the table is:

Code:

table.insert(errorBuffer, addr.name .. '; Gikk ikke til 100% pådrag.')

Writing to file; 

Code:

result, err = io.writefile ('/home/ftp/' .. errorFile, table.concat(errorBuffer, '\r\n'))

Is there anywhere in those where I can add the character set?

[admin]

You can add UTF-8 byte order mark to your CSV like this:

Code:

bom = string.char(0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF)
csv = bom .. table.concat(errorBuffer, '\r\n')
result, err = io.writefile ('/home/ftp/' .. errorFile, csv)

[Trond Hoyem]

You can add UTF-8 byte order mark to your CSV like this:

Code:

bom = string.char(0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF)
csv = bom .. table.concat(errorBuffer, '\r\n')
result, err = io.writefile ('/home/ftp/' .. errorFile, csv)

As always, the help in here is fast and on the spot! Thx again!