Re: How to write a degree sign into an XML file created with _wfopen()?

From:
"Bogdan" <bogdan@nocompany.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vc
Date:
Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:10:03 -0400
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"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9D4DCFD821ABBMihaiN@207.46.248.16...

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I ended up using UTF-8
and
creating a file in two steps as follows:

  errno_t nErrno = _wfopen_s(&fp, pszPath, L"w");
  if (0 == nErrno) {
    fputws(L"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n", fp);
    fclose(fp);
    nErrno = _wfopen_s(&fp, pszPath, L"a, ccs=UTF-8");
  }


I really don't see the need for two steps.
 nErrno = _wfopen_s(&fp, pszPath, L"w, ccs=UTF-8");
 if (0 == nErrno) {
   fputws(L"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n", fp);
   // here you can do everything you want
   fclose(fp);
 }
should do.

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I actually I did try the one-step solution first after Giovanni's reply.
The file always ended up with BOM which - according to docs - was correct.
Unfortunately some of XML parsers that I tested the file with had problems
with BOM in front of XML declaration.

Bogdan

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