Peter Nimmo <PeterNimmo@n...> wrote in
news:Xns97B9929F256B9PeterNnospamtnsofres@1...: 

> "Umut Alev - MSFT" <ualev@h...> wrote in
> news:nKj6g.1719$Th.461@trnddc03: 
> 
>> Actually, all you have to do here is set the encoding on the writer
>> 
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsd
>> k /html/c7ecffcd-ea6f-40a6-956a-dc2e15b70bbb.asp?frame=true 
>> 
>> for more info.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Umut Alev - MSFT
> Which funnily enough says "The encoding property has no effect for
> BSTR or DOM output." :)
> 
> Anyway I have moved on from there.
> 
> I have just tried to use the ADODB Stream object as the IStream 
> implementation to write out to, but I am getting some strange results.
> 
> I am using C++, and so I did the following:
> 
> m_stream->Open(vtMissing,adModeUnknown,adOpenStreamUnspecified,_bstr_t(
> ), _bstr_t());
> 
> //m_wrt->encoding = _bstr_t("UTF-8");//Not present for first stream
> test m_wrt->output = (IDispatch*)m_stream;
> 
> < Some other stuff>
> 
> m_stream->SaveToFile("c:\\temp\\test.xml",ADODB::adSaveCreateOverWrite)
> ; 
> 
> This worked fine and test.xml looked O.K but at this stage the
> encoding was still UTF-16.
> 
> When I added : m_wrt->encoding = _bstr_t("UTF-8");
> 
> The character encoding declaration suddenly had the hex bytes FF EE,
> at the beginning.
> 
> I find this strange as that is the byte order mark for UTF-16.
> 
> If I use : m_wrt->encoding = _bstr_t("UTF-16");
> 
> Then it disappears.  When using UTF-8 I even tried turning off 
> byteOrderMark, by assingining the property VARIANT_TRUE.That should of 
course read VARIANT_FALSE (note to self don't use copy
and paste). 

I have tried to supercede the previous message, but that's never worked
for me so far. 


Peter