Siebel 20: eScript Clib Fopen Function Always Creating File with Unicode Encoding (Doc ID 2693674.1)

Last updated on APRIL 04, 2025

Applies to:

Symptoms

The files created by Clib.fopen() function in eScript are always Unicode after upgrade to Siebel 20.
The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:

1. Create a eScript as below code:
    var fp = Clib.fopen("abc.txt", "wt");
2. The "abc.txt" file is created with Unicode encoding

Changes

The following things were confirmed in the internal environment test.

In IP14
var fp = Clib.fopen("abc_wt.txt", "wt"); -> create the ANSI (encoding) file
var fp = Clib.fopen("abc_wu.txt", "wu"); -> create the Unicode (encoding) file

In IP20.5
var fp = Clib.fopen("abc_wt.txt", "wt"); -> create the UTF8 (encoding) file
var fp = Clib.fopen("abc_wu.txt", "wu"); -> create the Unicode (encoding) file

In the IP20.5 environment, the file is created with UTF8, but there should not be any problem in reading and writing ASCII data.

Cause

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