[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #63931] Binary fwrite writes incorrect data to file

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #61, bug #63931 (project octave):


> A suggested workaround is to set encoding to "utf-8".

I'm not sure if this is a good work-around in general. If users have .m files
with non-ASCII characters, they'd need to continue using the same encoding
that they used when creating those .m files.
Alternatively, they could transcode all their .m files to UTF-8 and start
using that from now on.

Fixing the encoding to "UTF-8" when opening the file stream with `fopen` might
be a better workaround for Octave 8.1. But that might require changes in
multiple places or in .m files that aren't "owned" by the user.

> I see references to Octave 8.2, but is it available yet as a Windows
package?

Nightly builds that include the recent fixes should be available from here
when the workers are up again:
https://buildbot.octave.space/#/download

(Wait for a build after March 31 that will default to outputting UTF-8 when no
encoding is specified with `fopen`.)


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