how to write a unicode string to a file ?

[Kee Nethery]

On Oct 16, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Stef Mientki  
> <stef.mientki at gmail.com> wrote:

snip

> The thing is, I'd be VERY surprised (neigh, shocked!) if Excel can't  
> open a file that is in UTF8-- it just might need to be TOLD that its  
> utf8 when you go and open the file, as UTF8 looks just like ASCII --  
> until it contains characters that can't be expressed in ASCII. But I  
> don't know what type of file it is you're saving.

We found that UTF-16 was required for Excel. It would not "do the  
right thing" when presented with UTF-8.

Kee Nethery