Converts a blob containing an ANSI character string to a Unicode string.
FromAnsi ( blob )
Argument |
Description |
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blob |
A blob containing an ANSI character string you want to convert to a Unicode string |
String. Returns a character string if it succeeds and an empty string if it fails.
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.