Is this the expected behavior for strings? def rec_text do # content of rec.txt s = "ALTITUDE ENTERPRISES INT’L" a = File.read!("rec.txt") {a, s} end # Output > X.rec_text {"ALTITUDE ENTERPRISES INTÔÇÖL", "ALTITUDE ENTERPRISES INTÔÇÖL"} # pasted directly into IEx it outputs cor…

Hi again - have you tried to google for conEmu - I am a little lost on this end, as my familiarity with this toolchain you are using is none-existing :slight_smile: ConEmu | Unicode Support seems to have relevant info… you should maybe also check the console font you are using… you could try to r…

The string s should be output correctly, maybe your terminal is not using U8 codepage? Are you on windows? As for a - depends on the encoding of the file.

I’m on Windows 10, I’m using Windows Terminal + conEmu. the troubling bit is when I pass the same to ODBC I get an error. so it’s not just the screen output, it’s the actual value

What is the encoding of the source-file?

it’s a plain text file, I did not specify any https://gist.github.com/CharlesOkwuagwu/6b86816c79be36842d6aee713417bfeb.js

Hi - looks like something in your toolchain is tripping you up by interpreting the text file through codepage 858 - Code page 850 - Wikipedia Your string quotation mark ( ’ ) is encoded in your file as hex e2 80 99 - which in code page 858 gives ÔÇÖ Try to get your tool chain to respect UTF-8 - it…

@fsa from what you are saying, the console display will be wrong as expected, but the underlying string value in elixir should not change. That’s where I’m worried

wow, how did you solve this case, detective? Have you memorized all code pages? [image] CharlesO: it’s a plain text file, I did not specify any (encoding) When you encode some text into a binary you have to use some encoding. For example you could have this codepage: A = 01 B = 02 C = 03 s…

Hi again - I’m not on Windows, and have never seen or used conEmu, but there seems to be a setting here : ConEmu | Settings › Environment page that talks about utf8 … maybe play around with that? If the file is utf8 encoded, and your display environment respects utf8, all the toolchain between t…