Textual File Handling

By default all sequential text files read by Hull & Outfitting will be expected to be in UTF-8 format with a Byte Order Mark (BOM) present to identify them. Similarly by default all sequential text files written by Hull & Outfitting will be in Unicode UTF-8 format with a BOM present.

A simple command line ‘transcoder’ is also supplied; this may be used in some applications to convert files to a different encoding.