Re: fscanf and special characters

[David Grundberg]

On 06/22/2010 09:41 AM, CdeMills wrote:
> Hello,
>
> while reading a file with in = fscanf(fid, "%c");
>
> I got the warning message "range error for conversion to character value",
> because the file starts with, in hex, "0xEF 0xEB 0xBF" whose ascii names are

Aren't those bytes the UTF-16 endian magic code?  Try converting the 
file to UTF-8 using iconv.

David