Hi all, I am 3 days CloverETL user I am doing experiments with writing data to text files with different coding using UniversalDataWriter Component.
The problem is when I want to create an uft-8 file. CloverETL creates it but I would like to add BOM character just to mark the file as utf-8. It is really annoying me when other applications do not recognized the coding and I am force to point proper one (for instance Word when I use utf-8 text file as source data)
Cheers Rafal
Hello Rafal,
I’ve created an issue with your request (https://bug.javlin.eu/browse/CL-1823) in our issue tracking system. Please check it, if we have properly understood your requirements. Use guest/guest as username/password credentials.
As a workaround, you can create a branch, that adds a BOM character to the output file. But remember to set append attribute to true in subsequent Writer (see attached graph).
Hi, it works 
-but in the example you set charset as UTF-16BE instead UTF-8.
Rafal
Yes, the graph should work for all encodings: for charsets starting with UTF string it writes BOM character in the beginning of the file and for others it doesn’t.
To avoid appending \r\n in the very first line of the output file (in the example graph) I defined a new metadata:
I replaced Field delimeter with “\”. By default this value for the last field is “\r\n”