Solution: Someone replied...the answer was to use the MultiByteToWideChar function to convert from ANSI to UCS-2 before appending to the file.
Thanks! Roy Abou Assaly wrote: > > When I install an msi, I am keeping a log like so: > > c:\>msiexec /i foo.msi /l* foo.log > > The problems is that when I open foo.log, it turns out it's in UCS-2 > Little Endian encoding. Chaning the encoding in .NET is trivial, but we > have a legacy app that needs to append to the log file, and it's in VB6. > I'm having quite a bit of trouble converting the file to ASCII from UCS-2 > Little Endian. Without the conversion, the file gets mangled with > garbage. > > Is there a particular reason why UCS-2 Little Endian is used to create the > MSI log file? I don't think VB6 has the programmatic capacity to natively > read such an encoding....I'm googling a solution now :-/ > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/UCS-2-Little-Endian-encoding-of-MSI-Log-file-problem.-tf2292707.html#a6371589 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
