Hi Dave, Ok! I'll try to get it work... Yep 'less' was an example, I'm actually wrapping the exiftool perl library... Francois On Nov 20, 2011 6:30 AM, "David T. Lewis" <lewis@mail.msen.com> wrote:

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 06:19:59PM -0800, Francois Stephany wrote:

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Hi,

Reading an utf8 file with OSProcess results in some weird characters showing up.

(PipeableOSProcess command: 'less /path/to/a/text/file') output. -> inspect the bytestring and get some non-ascii characters fucked up.

Doing `less /path/to/a/text/file` in a terminal displays the file fine.

That's probably something stupid on my side but I cannot get it working. Any idea ?

Francois,

The output of the PipeableOSProcess is based on a StandardFileStream rather than a MultiByteFileStream, so it may not do what you expect with a file containing non-ascii characters.

Note that the unix /usr/bin/less utility is intended for interactive use with a terminal. You probably should use /usr/bin/cat instead.

HTH, Dave