How are .prj and .pui files encoded?

farangkao · PostDec 06, 2018#12018-12-06T11:46+00:00

Hi there,

I would like to read the .prj files for a special tool, but the special characters (non-ASCII, or backslash) are encoded in a strange unknown way.

For example: Backslash is saved as +AFw-

So a saved path in a project looks like this:

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[FilesU - Temp]
0=Temp1
1=C:+AFw-Users+AFw-Public+AFw-Documents+AFw-Test.txt

Has anyone an idea on how to convert those sequences back to "normal" text, except testing each and every character to get the result?

Evergreen · PostDec 06, 2018#22018-12-06T13:54+00:00

The file is written in Unicode (UTF-7) and you are reading it in ASCII. See this reference.

farangkao · PostDec 06, 2018#32018-12-06T14:33+00:00

Oh... strange that UE doesn't open it's own file with the correct encoding then.

I figured out with setting the Advanced->Code page to "65000 (UTF-7)", it shows the data properly.

But easy to read it then with an external tool anyway, thanks for the hint! :)