TextAsset and encoding

Can anybody tell me if TextAsset will remove any non 7-bit ascii characters from its contents?

I have a txt file with some danish letters æøå and some more european letters like é ö ü etc.

I have of course assigned this txt file to a TextAsset property in the inspector. When I try and get the contents of the TextAsset from the code it returns a string with only the standard 7-bit ascii letters.
Even when I try and use the byte array from the TextAsset class I cannot see any signs of the characters. When I output the byte values of the byte array there are no values higher 127 (7-bit ascii)

Does anyone know a workaround other than pasting text directly into a string property through the inspector or by pasting it into the code?

//perlohmann

 

sure you stored the file as UTF-8?

 

TextAsset definitely doesn't remove anything...indeed you probably didn't save in UTF8.

--Eric

 

yep default save of notepad is ansi. selected utf-8 and problem solved.

thx

 

glad it worked

Also, just because its much nicer and faster to work with: Have a look at programmer's notepad 2