Incorrectly opening files as UTF-16

Question

I do a lot of web editing and have a variety of HTML files with the following line in them:
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode">
Now that I have Leopard, anytime I open these files, it fills the screen with chinese characters. I've found that if I go into TextEdit, and select anything except Unicode (UTF-16) when opening the file, the file loads as it should.
It seems that every program (TextEdit, Dreamweaver, etc) is now trying to load these (English) files at UTF-16 and it's converting them into Chinese.
Any ideas on how to disable this "feature" or make TextEdit into a true text (only) editor?

Answer 1

Hi Krishna,
try to use:
    response->set_header_field( name = 'Content-Type'
                                value = 'application/vnd.ms-excel' ).
to set the correct content type for the file (example above Excel).
Also place the coding in the OnRequest Event and not on the Layout of the page with flow logic. As an alternative you can use a controller with a controller class. In there redefine the method do_request and place the coding for creating the response therein. The coding should look similar to:
*  send back the file
    response->set_header_field( name  = 'Content-Type'
                                value = ls_file-content_type ).
  response->delete_header_field( 'Cache-Control' ).         "#EC NOTEXT
  response->delete_header_field( 'Expires' ).               "#EC NOTEXT
  response->delete_header_field( 'Pragma' ).                "#EC NOTEXT
  CONCATENATE 'inline; filename="' ls_file-name INTO lv_string.
  response->set_header_field( name = 'Content-Disposition'
                              value = lv_string ).
  response->set_data( ls_file-content ).
In the example above lv_string has type string and ls_file is a structure containing strings for name and content-type and an xstring for the file content.
I usually don't set the content length as I have enabled compression and then the icm calculates the content length for me after compression.
Hope that helps.
Best Regards
Michael