# AssemblyInfo Updater destroys UTF-16 files

**URL:** <https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/assemblyinfo-updater-destroys-utf-16-files/3353>\
**Category:** Bugs\
**Created:** [April 12, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/assemblyinfo-updater-destroys-utf-16-files/3353 "2011-04-12T06:33:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![itergo](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/6f9a4e/32.png) [@itergo](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/itergo)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/assemblyinfo-updater-destroys-utf-16-files/3353/1 "2011-04-12T06:33:56Z")

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Everytime I try to patch AssemblyInfo.cs files which are UTF-16 encoded the files are afterwords totally demaged. No metter if they are with or without a BOM. Also it's no metter if they are in Big-Endian or Little-Endian.

Regards,  
René

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**Author:** ![stephen.ryan](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@stephen.ryan](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/stephen.ryan)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 8:18am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/assemblyinfo-updater-destroys-utf-16-files/3353/2 "2011-04-13T08:18:04Z")

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Hi René   
  
 Unfortunately this is a limitation of FinalBuilder 6. FB6 is not Unicode aware and cannot manipulate Unicode files.   
  
 To work around this you can use ASCII encoded files otherwise you will need to upgrade to FB7 which supports uncicode.   
  
 Regards,   
 Steve