# Text Find / Replace action can't deal with unicode files
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/text-find-replace-action-cant-deal-with-unicode-files/3018
**Category:** Bugs
**Created:** [August 7, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/text-find-replace-action-cant-deal-with-unicode-files/3018 "2008-08-07T01:34:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@hans\_nieuwenhuis](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/hans_nieuwenhuis)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/text-find-replace-action-cant-deal-with-unicode-files/3018/1 "2008-08-07T01:34:56Z")
The Text Find / Replace action doesn't work for unicode files. If I (manually) save the file in ANSI format, the Text Find / Replace action works okay. For unicode files, the action says 'no matches were found'.
The file which needs to be processed is generated by Visual Studio (.inf file for CAB); I don't think I can tell Visual Studio to generate an ANSI file...maybe I should try to read the whole file and then save it in the hope that the format will be changed to ANSI by FinalBuilder....
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### Author:  [@tate](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/tate)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 8:10am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/text-find-replace-action-cant-deal-with-unicode-files/3018/2 "2008-08-08T08:10:44Z")
We’re planning on adding unicode support to a future version of FinalBuilder.
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### Author:  [@hans\_nieuwenhuis](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/hans_nieuwenhuis)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 8:38am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/text-find-replace-action-cant-deal-with-unicode-files/3018/3 "2008-08-08T08:38:53Z")
I just found the 'text replace unicode' plug-in on your site.
That one solved my problem. Great! Now I can run my build without having to stop the build half-way, manually change the unicode file, and let the build finish.
I believe the next Delphi version will be unicode-enabled; maybe that can help you to add unicode support.