Hi, I'm using a StreamReader (readLine()) to read text from a file, but some
lines in the file I'm reading have odd characters, such as the Euro symbol,
etc. I find that no matter what encoding I use with the StreamReader, these
characters either get entirely ignored, replaced with a "?", or replaced by
some other character. Is there anything I can do to make this work, or
should I use something like BinaryReader?
Thanks.
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Alien,
When you create the StreamReader be certain that you use the correct
Encoding class for your file. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ctorTopic4.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ctorTopic6.asp
For information on Encoding, Unicode & character sets see: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
& http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/unicode.html
Hope this helps
Jay
"alien" <al***@sympatic o.ca> wrote in message
news:d9******** **********@news 20.bellglobal.c om... Hi, I'm using a StreamReader (readLine()) to read text from a file, but
some lines in the file I'm reading have odd characters, such as the Euro
symbol, etc. I find that no matter what encoding I use with the StreamReader,
these characters either get entirely ignored, replaced with a "?", or replaced
by some other character. Is there anything I can do to make this work, or
should I use something like BinaryReader?
Thanks.
Thanks, that helped, I've got it working now.
"Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <Ja********@ema il.msn.com> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP10.phx.gbl. .. Alien,
When you create the StreamReader be certain that you use the correct
Encoding class for your file.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ctorTopic4.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ctorTopic6.asp
For information on Encoding, Unicode & character sets see:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
&
http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/unicode.html
Hope this helps
Jay
"alien" <al***@sympatic o.ca> wrote in message
news:d9******** **********@news 20.bellglobal.c om... Hi, I'm using a StreamReader (readLine()) to read text from a file, but
some lines in the file I'm reading have odd characters, such as the Euro
symbol, etc. I find that no matter what encoding I use with the StreamReader,
these characters either get entirely ignored, replaced with a "?", or replaced
by some other character. Is there anything I can do to make this work, or
should I use something like BinaryReader?
Thanks.
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