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Is it possible to set praat preferences automatically?

In the praat preferences menu it is possible to change the encoding of files written by Praat by using

Praat > Preferences > Text writing preferences...

My question whether it is possible to do this from within the script to guarantee that the user is always saving files with the correct encoding;

In my case UTF-8 w/o BOM. The default is try ASCII then UTF-16 which inserts the two bytes (BOM style) in the header of the file.

Solution

  • Simply put

    Text writing preferences: "UTF-8"

    at the beginning of your script.