Storing text files inside executables

[Quin]

I'm a big fan of embedding data in DataSections in order to avoid shipping a bunch of files around. I currently do this for sounds and JSON, with CatchSound and CatchJSON. However, now I want to store a plane text file inside my app. I can do it just fine like I always do, with two labels in a DataSection with an IncludeBinary nested between them, but I can't figure out how to read it. I've tried PeekS(?Label, ?EndLabel - ?Label) as well as Restore Label Read.s MyValue$, but both produce weird binary output and aren't what I want. Is this possible?
Thanks.

[infratec]

No code no help.

Hint:
Have you used #PB_UTF8 flag inside of PeekS()?
Or is the text file really in unicode?

[infratec]

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DataSection
  Start:
  IncludeBinary #PB_Compiler_Home + "Examples\Sources\Date.pb"
  Stop:
EndDataSection

Debug PeekS(?Start, ?Stop - ?Start, #PB_UTF8|#PB_ByteLength)

[Quin]

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DataSection
  Start:
  IncludeBinary #PB_Compiler_Home + "Examples\Sources\Date.pb"
  Stop:
EndDataSection

Debug PeekS(?Start, ?Stop - ?Start, #PB_UTF8)

Yup, you got it. It was the missing #PB_UTF8 flag.

[HeX0R]

Don't forget #PB_ByteLength

[infratec]

You are right.
Corrected my example above.

And you have also to check for a BOM.

[mk-soft]

Work without len ...

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DataSection
  Start:
  IncludeBinary #PB_Compiler_Home + "Examples\Sources\Date.pb"
  Data.w 0 ; End
EndDataSection

Debug PeekS(?Start, -1, #PB_UTF8)