{"issue":{"title":"WSH, UTF-8 and Character Accents","created_at":"2011-09-13T13:39:17Z","user":{"login":"CsRenan","id":981566,"url":"https://api.github.com/users/CsRenan","gravatar_id":"c258139d043700d7ae90132e5caeb8a5","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c258139d043700d7ae90132e5caeb8a5?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png"},"milestone":null,"updated_at":"2011-12-24T02:30:32Z","labels":[{"name":"bug","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jshint/jshint/labels/bug","color":"e10c02"}],"state":"closed","id":1633145,"closed_at":"2011-12-24T02:30:32Z","html_url":"https://github.com/jshint/jshint/issues/253","pull_request":{"patch_url":null,"html_url":null,"diff_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.","number":253,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jshint/jshint/issues/253","comments":8,"assignee":null},"comment":{"created_at":"2011-12-24T02:30:32Z","user":{"login":"antonkovalyov","id":49106,"url":"https://api.github.com/users/antonkovalyov","gravatar_id":"de4bc2ea0dbe8d1ef6c3e190325a35de","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/de4bc2ea0dbe8d1ef6c3e190325a35de?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png"},"updated_at":"2011-12-24T02:30:32Z","id":3266214,"body":"Fixed in 064c04b1f65deabcf0714609becd02dad938bbd4 and f4324ac3be533babcd23ae2f7392daee2016de27. I did my best but I suck at Windows programming even if it is JavaScript.","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jshint/jshint/issues/comments/3266214"},"action":"created"}