# REALGetTextData, best encoding?

**URL:** <https://forum.xojo.com/t/realgettextdata-best-encoding/23421>\
**Category:** Plugins\
**Created:** [April 4, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/realgettextdata-best-encoding/23421 "2015-04-04T20:21:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Christian\_Schmitz](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/christian_schmitz/32/158_2.png) [@Christian\_Schmitz](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Christian_Schmitz)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/realgettextdata-best-encoding/23421/1 "2015-04-04T20:21:27Z")

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Hello,

what is best encoding for REALGetTextData?  
Or what is encoding mostly used in Xojo.  
I’d like to avoid conversion as much as possible.

Greetings  
Christian

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Ranieri](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@Joe\_Ranieri](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Joe_Ranieri)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/realgettextdata-best-encoding/23421/2 "2015-04-04T20:42:47Z")

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The idea is that you should pick whatever encoding you need for your plugin’s purpose. For example, if you’re going to pass the data off to a Windows API, just ask for UTF-16.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Schmitz](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/christian_schmitz/32/158_2.png) [@Christian\_Schmitz](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Christian_Schmitz)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/realgettextdata-best-encoding/23421/3 "2015-04-05T07:04:14Z")

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what is internal representation usually?

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/1X/455b4dcc0e61630e9f81940004ddffa49c432a46.png) [@system](https://forum.xojo.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/realgettextdata-best-encoding/23421/4 "2020-10-29T17:42:46Z")

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