Workflow characters ÿþ: what can I do

When selecting my text file in workflow, the only thing I see is: (What can I do to have my text file)

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Open that text file into a text editor and see the content. Looks like more an exe file renamed as a text file.

Hi
it is ok when I open it in a text editor:

Then most likely you have control characters at the beginning of the file that don’t show in a text editor.

Better you open a technical suppot ticket via our website so a technician can review your data and help you with the issue.

ok thks for your help

Now that I think of it, it could be a simple case of UTF8-BOM encoding. That is UTF8 encoding with 3 characters at the beginning of the code. In Workflow, use the Add/Remove plugin to remove the first 3 characters of the file. See if that does it.

When I do that, I get this, nothing is aligned anymore:

Humm…better go with my first suggestion. open a ticket :wink:

The BOM is 3 chars in UTF-8, but 2 chars in UTF-16. It can also be 4 chars in UTF-32, but it’s unlikely you’d have that.

Try removing 2, 3 or 4 characters from the start of the file in the Workflow Data Selector and see if one of those values yields the proper results.

I have removed the first 3 lines because I don’t need them, but when I do that, spaces are added between each character…

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So your file is definitely UTF-8 or UTF-16. You should use the Translator action task in Workflow to convert it from UTF-8 to something like ISO 8859-1 Latin I (depending what your local encoding is).
Then you should be able to use it as any other text file.

ok ths Phil, I will try

Did you resolve this? If so could you share with me? I have same issue.

David
At the beginning of my flow I put Translate 1200 (UCS-2/UTF-16 Little Endian) and everything is ok now

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