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Asked: 2026-06-16T09:33:09+00:00

I’m trying to export some text to an UTF-8 file with LotusScript. I checked

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I’m trying to export some text to an UTF-8 file with LotusScript. I checked the documentation and the following lines should output my text as UTF-8, but Notepad++ says it’s ANSI.

Dim streamCompanies As NotesStream
Dim sesCurrent as New NotesSession

Set streamCompanies = sesCurrent.CreateStream
Call streamCompanies.Open("C:\companies.txt", "UTF-8")
Call streamCompanies.WriteText("Test")
streamCompanies.Close

When I try the same with UTF-16 instead of UTF-8, the generated fileformat is correct. Could anyone point me in the right direction on how to write an UTF-8 file with LotusScript on a Windows platform?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Notes is most likely doing its job and encoding properly. It is likely that Notepad++ is interpreting the UTF-8 file as ANSI if no UTF-8-only characters exist in the file. There is no other way to determine the encoding in this case other than to analyze its contents.

    See this SO answer: How to avoid inadvertent encoding of UTF-8 files as ASCII/ANSI?

    So a simple test to make sure Notes is working would be to output a non-ANSI character and then open in Notepad++ to confirm.

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