FromAnsi

Description

Converts a blob containing an ANSI character string to a Unicode string.

Syntax

FromAnsi ( blob )

Argument

Description

blob

A blob containing an ANSI character string you want to convert to a Unicode string


Return value

String.

Returns a character string if it succeeds and an empty string if it fails.

Usage

The FromAnsi function converts an ANSI character string contained in a blob to a Unicode character string.

FromAnsi has the same result as String(blob, EncodingANSI!) and will be obsolete in a future release of PowerBuilder.

Unicode file format

Unicode files sometimes have two extra bytes at the start of the file to indicate that they are Unicode files.

See also

FromUnicode

String

ToAnsi

ToUnicode