Writing ANSI string to Unicode file over FTP

Question

I have the following Visual Basic 6.0 function which writes an ANSI string to a new file over FTP. I would like it to write the file as UTF-16LE. Is there any good way to do tha

Answer 1

We need to see the declaration for apiInternetWriteFile. I'm pretty sure it's a Declare into an API call, maybe something in WinINet.dll. My guess is that you need to:

• Change the Declare so it expects a ByVal Long for the 2nd argument
• EDIT to get a BOM at the start, try Contents = ChrW(&HFEFF&) & Contents. Or possibly FFEF, not sure of the endianness.
• Pass StrPtr(contents) for the 2nd argument
• Pass Len(contents)*2 for the 3rd argument (length in bytes)

That will pass a Unicode UTF-16 string as the contents argument