ByteArray - save unicode data (string) as utf-8 with BOM

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See also Batch file conversion - character set and BOM detection of html files to detect files with BOM (unicode Little/Big, utf-8)

ByteArray - save unicode data (string) as utf-8 with BOM 
'Save unicode string as UTF-8 with BOM

SaveBOMUTF "f:\222.txt", "ìšèøžýáíé"

Sub SaveBOMUTF(FileName, SomeString)
  '1. save BOM header.
  SaveBOMHeader FileName

    Dim ByteArray
  Set ByteArray = CreateObject("ScriptUtils.ByteArray")

  'Convert the string to UTF-8
  ByteArray.CharSet = "utf-8"
  ByteArray.String = SomeString

  'Save the UTF-8 string at position 4 of the file
  '(after the 3bytes BOM header)
  ByteArray.SaveAs FileName, 4
End Sub

Sub SaveBOMHeader(FileName)
  'create byte array object
  Dim ByteArray
  Set ByteArray = CreateObject("ScriptUtils.ByteArray")

  'the bytearray contains BOM header - 3 bytes.
  ByteArray.SetSize 3
  ByteArray(1) = &HEF
  ByteArray(2) = &HBB
  ByteArray(3) = &HBF
  'Or you can use ByteArray.HexString = "EFBBBF" in v> 2.14

  'Save the BOM header to the FileName
  ByteArray.SaveAs FileName
End Sub

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ScriptUtils.ByteArray

Works with safearray binary data - save/restore binary data from/to a disk, convert to a string/hexstring, codepage/charset conversions, Base64 conversion, etc.
     ByteArray is a COM class specially designed to work with Microsoft Windows Scripting engines - VB Script and JScript in Active Server Pages or WSH and in CHM or HTA applications. It also works with VB Net, Visual basic (VBA - VB 5, VB 6, Word, Excel, Access, …), C#, J#, C++, ASP, ASP.Net, Delphi and with T-SQL OLE functions - see Use ByteArray object article. You can also use the object in other programming environments with COM support, such is PowerBuilder.
     Source code for ByteArray is available within distribution license, please see License page for ASP file upload and ScriptUtilities.

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