Trouble writing to file. Wrong encoding?

[burnt mica]

I had previously set the locale with setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); I reset the locale to the C before trying to write to a file but opening the file it puts it in binary mode. I suspect this is due to wrong encoding.

    setlocale(LC_ALL, "C");

    FILE *file = fopen("actions.txt", "w");
    for(int i = 0; i < arrlen(game.action_history); ++i) {
        struct Action *action = &game.action_history[i];
        char buffer[32];
        char color = PIECE_COLORS[action->piece];
        char species = LETTER[PIECE_SPECIES[action->piece]];
        int number = PIECE_NUMBERS[action->piece];
        snprintf(buffer, 32, 
            "%c%c%d %d %d %d %d %d %d\n", 
            color, species, number,
            action->source.q, action->source.r, action->source.s,
            action->destination.q, action->destination.r, action->destination.s);
        fwrite(buffer, 32, 1, file);
    }
    fclose(file);

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[burnt mica]

hmm

[frail tangle]

Are you writing non-ascii stuff to the file?

What encoding do you want the file to have?

[burnt mica]

I am just writing ascii characters like WS1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1

oh i think i called fwrite incorrectly

Sorry false alarm i guess.

[frail tangle]

I wouldn't mess with locales at all.

[burnt mica]

I am displaying unicode characters to the terminal

as well

I don't know much about locales.

If i don't set the locale to utf-8 it doesnt print the unicode characters

I probably did something wrong

trying to debug it now

The issue was i was writing bytes past the count of bytes written to the buffer

Just needed to get the count from snprintf

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