Question

I want to basically copy whats from the clipboard and paste it in a file in utf-8 encoding, but what ever I try, the file has the ‘?’ symbols in it and is Anscii encoding…

But what I found out is, if there is a file that’s already in utf-8 encoding, then whatever I paste in it manually (deleting whats there already), wont have the ‘?’ in it.

So if there is a way to clear content in a utf-8 file, then copy whats from the clipboard and write it to that file then that would be great.

If I create the file, it’s always ends up being Ancii…

Now I already know how to copy from clip board and write it to a file, its just how to clear a file which is confusing…

Answer 1

Opening the file in write/read mode (w+) will truncate the file without rewriting it if it already exists.