[PD] standard encoding of pd files in each system?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Pd < 0.43 is probably something like ISO-8859-1 or perhaps UTF-8, Pd  
0.43 is UTF-8.  UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 will both be fully ANSI if only  
the standard ASCII chars are used, i.e. no ü, ã, é, etc.

For converting, I like moocow/any2bytes and moocow/bytes2any.

.hc

On Jan 26, 2011, at 5:17 AM, João Pais wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was curious to know what is the standard encoding of pd files in  
> each operating system. According to Notepad+, in XP is ANSI.
>
> Or a followup question, which format is better for pd to read a  
> string of characters and convert it to floats? ANSI seems the be  
> most reliable here where it comes to interpreting the data, although  
> utf8 without BOM renders them in the symbol atom more accurately.
>
> The reason I'm asking is because I'm working with converting ascii  
> characters to their float value.
>
> If anyone wants, I can send a small test patch to try out.
>
> João
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