[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Having a file of codepage MacRoman how to read it?

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You really need to know code-page of files being read in. Reading files with wrong code-page can potentially corrupt your DB indices. (Not able to edit or delete record) Recommendation is to ask to have those writing the file, doing so in known code-page, fx UTF-8 Alternative is to ask them to generate XML or JSON files, that both defaults to UTF-8 If it is a supported code-page you can add it to input from statement with CONVERT

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