Problems writing a pound (sterling) sign to a file

[Colby]

Using the following code I am trying to write to a text file. I keep
getting "£"

All I want is "£"

Any Ideas?

using System;

using System.IO;

using System.Text;

public class TextToFile

{

private const string FILE_NAME = "MyFile.txt ";

public static void Main(String[] args)

{

if (File.Exists(FI LE_NAME))

{

Console.WriteLi ne("{0} already exists.", FILE_NAME);

return;

}
StreamWriter sr = File.AppendText (FILE_NAME);

sr.WriteLine ("£");

sr.Close();

}

}

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Colby,

Instead of calling the AppendText method, create the StreamWriter
instance yourself, using a FileStream instance, and pass the encoding to the
StreamWriter that the character is a part of. The AppendText method makes
some assumptions about the encoding which is probably what is causing your
problem.

Hope this helps.

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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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Using the following code I am trying to write to a text file. I keep
getting "£"

All I want is "£"

Any Ideas?

using System;

using System.IO;

using System.Text;

public class TextToFile

{

private const string FILE_NAME = "MyFile.txt ";

public static void Main(String[] args)

{

if (File.Exists(FI LE_NAME))

{

Console.WriteLi ne("{0} already exists.", FILE_NAME);

return;

}
StreamWriter sr = File.AppendText (FILE_NAME);

sr.WriteLine ("£");

sr.Close();

}

}

[Jon Skeet]

Colby <co************ *********@yahoo .com> wrote:

Using the following code I am trying to write to a text file. I keep
getting "£"

No, you're getting "£" in UTF-8 (I believe), which is the default
encoding for StreamWriter. Now, what encoding do you *want* your stream
to be in?

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