How could i ouput chinese text strings to a txt file?

Hi, I am trying to export a cell string containing traditional Chinese characters to a txt file. Everything displays properly in the console and i can see the characters properly in the variables viewer and the console.

Default Character coding is windows-1252

>> feature('DefaultCharacterSet')

ans =

windows-1252

When i tried using these commands and export all i get is a blank file

>> str = '長和';
>> csvwrite(test,str)

I suspect might be an encoding issue. How could i export it properly?

Thanks. Bryan

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

Bryan - I think that you are correct about needing the appropriate encoding though am not sure if you can do that with csvwrite as it doesn't seem to support an encoding parameter (though maybe you can use if you change your system's language settings).

You can try to use open a file for a particular encoding and then write the string. For example, if I do

 str = '長和';
 fod = fopen('test.txt','wt','n','GBK');
 fprintf(fod,'%s',str);
 fclose(fod);

where I have chosen the GBK encoding (you may have something different for your version of MATLAB and OS). Now, if I read the string back as

 fid = fopen('test.txt','rt','n','GBK');
 newstr = fgetl(fid);
 fclose(fid);

I see that

 newstr =
     長和

is as expected.

However, if I try to open the test.txt file in any text viewer (that I have) I do not see the correct text. Perhaps if I had a text file reader that supports GBK encoding it would work okay.