why MT5 exports file in unicode?

[Florin Ionescu]

who uses unicode with only digits?

is there anyone who uses this unicode style in financial data? client or developer?

at least, we would be able to select the type of file to export,

not being forced to export in a format which most of us cannot use directly

 

can someone please shed some light on this decisions for unicode ?

and can you please consider at least exporting choices of both ansi and unicode? 

Please? 

[Bogdan Tenea]

You can use this to convert strings to and from unicode:

http://mqlmagazine.com/mql-programming/dll-hell-mql5-edition-unicode-vs-ansi

[Rashid Umarov]

See Use of a Codepage

[Florin Ionescu]

Rosh:

See Use of a Codepage

I was referring to MT5 File menu => Save... submenu

If we have only digits in the exported CSV file, it doesn't make sense to save it in unicode format. Double dimension of the file also.

Do you suggest to make my self a script to save a chart as a csv, in the way I want? 

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GoD2.0 Thank you for the link. It's a very useful library in some scenarios.

I wasn't aware of the site also, thanks for it too :)  

[Florin Ionescu]

I dropped this issue, but now I'm confronted with it again.

What byte order mask is there when we save a chart as unicode? 

And when I say save, I mean File menu -> Save... submenu

 

Can there be an option to save to ansi / ascii csv file?

I'm still mot being able to convert automatically this type of unicode file into ansi, programatically.

 

 

[Florin Ionescu]

I've succeeded in the end with python

Here's the code for anyone who would need/like it:

def utf2ascii(fnameutf,fnameascii):
   futf = open(fnameutf,'r')
   fascii = open(fnameascii,'w')
   
   for line in futf:
      lineascii = line.strip()
      lineascii = string.translate(line,None,'\xff\xfe\x00')
      fascii.write(lineascii)
   
   fascii.close()
   futf.close()