{"comment":{"created_at":"2011-10-12T09:06:18Z","body":"With this fix it does not work correctly if the source file has another encoding than utf-8.\r\n\r\nI think it should be a mix. If there's a BOM, it can be used to specify the encoding. If not, the user has to tell (via parameter).\r\n\r\nBut I don't know if `ADODB.Stream` is a good choice. I think WDAC/MDAC (windows/microsoft data access components that include ADO) are not a mandatory part of windows (at least in [older versions](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ms810810(v=MSDN.10\\).aspx#bkmk_MDAC_WDACReleases)).\r\nHence, there should be a fallback-mechanism... ","updated_at":"2011-10-12T09:06:18Z","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jshint/jshint/issues/comments/2377191","id":2377191,"user":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0bbd585a794f22f3cf8eed34111d90dd?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","url":"https://api.github.com/users/WolfgangKluge","id":639482,"login":"WolfgangKluge"}},"action":"created","issue":{"number":253,"created_at":"2011-09-13T13:39:17Z","pull_request":{"diff_url":null,"patch_url":null,"html_url":null},"body":"The wsh file that comes with JSHint uses an ActiveX object for opening files. It goes like this:\r\n\r\n``` \r\nreturn new ActiveXObject(\"Scripting.FileSystemObject\").OpenTextFile(path, 1).ReadAll();\r\n```\r\n\r\nHowever, for files with accented characters (whether in comments or literals), such characters won't be parsed corretly. That leads to JSHint indicating unsafe character errors. A single accented character will also be read as multiple characters, so sometimes this also leads to JSHint saying some lines are too long when they really aren't.\r\n\r\nThere's an alternative to force reading the file as unicode, by adding two more arguments to the OpenTextFile method of the file system object. However, I've tried it in multiple machines and it doesn't work as expected.\r\n\r\nHowever, by using a stream object, those files can be read correctly. I've replaced the above code in wsh.js with this:\r\n\r\n```\r\nvar stream = WScript.CreateObject(\"ADODB.Stream\");\r\nstream.Charset = 'utf-8';\r\nstream.Open();\r\nstream.LoadFromFile(path);\r\nvar result = stream.ReadText();\r\nstream.close();\r\n\r\nreturn result;\r\n```\r\n\r\nAnd then it worked as expected. I think users should be able to use something like this, passing the desired charset as a parameter.","comments":5,"title":"WSH, UTF-8 and Character Accents","updated_at":"2011-10-12T09:06:18Z","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jshint/jshint/issues/253","id":1633145,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"closed_at":null,"user":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c258139d043700d7ae90132e5caeb8a5?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","url":"https://api.github.com/users/CsRenan","id":981566,"login":"CsRenan"},"html_url":"https://github.com/jshint/jshint/issues/253","labels":[{"name":"bug","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jshint/jshint/labels/bug","color":"e10c02"}],"state":"open"},"legacy":{"issue_id":1633145,"comment_id":2377191}}