title: Powerbuilder: ImportFile of UTF-8 (Converting UTF-8 to ANSI)
body: <p>My Powerbuilder version is 6.5, cannot use a higher version as this is what I am supporting.</p>
  
  <p>My problem is, when I am doing dw_1.ImportFile(file) the first row and first column has a funny string like this: </p>
  
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  <p>Which I dont understand until I tried opening the file and saving it to a new text file and trying to import that new file.which worked flawlessly without the funny string.</p>
  
  <p>My conclusion is that this is happening because the file is UTF-8 (as shown in NOTEPAD++) and the new file is Ansi. The file I am trying to import is automatically given by a 3rd party and my users dont want the extra job of doing this.</p>
  
  <p>How do I force convert this files to ANSI in powerbuilder. If there is none, I might have to do a command prompt conversion, any ideas?</p>