Option in CsPro 5 to keep ANSI data file as is
Posted: April 13th, 2013, 5:17 pm
Hi,
I just want to give you unsolicited advice on how users of old version of CsPro embrace version 5 and above, that is, leave the original data file format as is. This means that if the data file is in ANSI, the output data file format should not be changed to UTF-8. This can be implemented by either adding an option in CsPro development mode that would allow the user to select the data file format (ANSI/UTF-8) or CsPro 5 can be redesigned such that if there is no BOM found in the data file when opening it, it would be processed in ANSI mode otherwise process it as UTF-8. Definitely, processing UTF-8 has an overhead compared to processing ANSI data file because you don't have to parse the latter.
Another reason it that a lot of users have already developed tools/systems written in other programming language and find it time consuming to integrate CsPro 5 in their existing system.
Best regards,
I just want to give you unsolicited advice on how users of old version of CsPro embrace version 5 and above, that is, leave the original data file format as is. This means that if the data file is in ANSI, the output data file format should not be changed to UTF-8. This can be implemented by either adding an option in CsPro development mode that would allow the user to select the data file format (ANSI/UTF-8) or CsPro 5 can be redesigned such that if there is no BOM found in the data file when opening it, it would be processed in ANSI mode otherwise process it as UTF-8. Definitely, processing UTF-8 has an overhead compared to processing ANSI data file because you don't have to parse the latter.
Another reason it that a lot of users have already developed tools/systems written in other programming language and find it time consuming to integrate CsPro 5 in their existing system.
Best regards,