[CB-5478] cordova CLI can't create WP8 project with encode issue!

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: cordova-cli

Environment

win8(simple chinese)+vs2012+wp8sdk

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: puchen
• Created: 25/Nov/13 06:15
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:26
• Resolved: 25/Nov/13 08:42

Description

descrip:
C:\Windows\system32>cordova -v
3.2.0-0.1.0

cordova create hello com.example.hello HelloWorld
cd hello
cordova platform add wp8

got errors:

D:\VSProject\helloCordova>cordova platform add wp8
Checking wp8 requirements...
Creating wp8 project...
[Error: Non-whitespace before first tag.
Line: 0
Column: 1
Char: �]

Finally I found following files
wmappmanifest.xml, HelloCordova.csproj, HelloCordova.sln, MainPage.xaml.cs, etc
were corrupt, the start characters of file content were sth like
锘?*
the cli can't parse these files
I think it's an encoding issue

here is sample issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4618

my opinion:
i check the corodova cli source code, i found it's this file ".cordova\lib\wp\cordova\3.2.0\wp8\bin\create.js" caused this error!

in create.js file:

function write(filename, contents) {
var f=fso.OpenTextFile(filename, ForWriting, TristateTrue);
f.Write(contents);
f.Close();
}
WScript OpenTextFile Method ： http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/314cz14s(v=vs.84).aspx
OpenTextFile Method have 4 args but
fso.OpenTextFile miss a args create,

OpenTextFile should open file with "unicode" encode,because cordova wp8 cli template project files are encode with "utf-8". if we not specified encode OpenTextFile should use system default encode ascii.

cordova template files were encoded with utf8, opentext and wirte with ascii, then save thems will cause encode issue!

Issue Links

• duplicates: CB-5477 cordova CLI can't create WP8 project with encode issue!