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How to use streamreader to read ascii 8 charecters

Friends,

Want to read a textfile with characters that go above 7F ( ascii > 128) and
put the results line by line in a string to process it further
I used a streamreader to do so but the readline() methods in someway skipps
the characters > 127 .
I used the binary reader as well, same result.

string regel;
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader ( ImportFile, System.Yext.Uni code.UTF8);
While ( regel = sr.readline()) !=null)
{
I do something here
}

How to solve this?

Regards

Gerrit Esmeijer

Nov 16 '05 #1
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G.Esmeijer <ge****@nomail. nl> wrote:
Want to read a textfile with characters that go above 7F ( ascii > 128)


There's no such thing as ASCII > 128.

Perhaps you mean Encoding.Defaul t?

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/unicode.html

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Nov 16 '05 #2
Yes you caught me. Fine OK Sorry
but now to the point.

I tried several things. What I would like is reading a string that consists
of characters them a degree sign en a diameter sing ( zero with a cross line
(alt-155 on your keyboard - I would not dare to say ascii-155) :-) ); put
them in a string variable and store the result in a
field in a database. Leter I need to make lists with on them the same
characers againg.
And how about all those names with Umlauts (German) like , , etc.
There must be a way to simply read those chracters and store them in a
string variable.

Converting to ascii converts althose character > 127 into a ?
( f etc)
For me, coming from vb6 this was no problem.
Now in C# I have till now not found a way to read these characters . In
spite of all the explenation tou are referring to.

PLEASE show me a piece of code that puts these Character into a string.
Regards, gerrit Esmeijer




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G.Esmeijer <ge****@nomail. nl> wrote:
Want to read a textfile with characters that go above 7F ( ascii > 128)


There's no such thing as ASCII > 128.

Perhaps you mean Encoding.Defaul t?

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/unicode.html

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.co m>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too

Nov 16 '05 #3
G.Esmeijer <ge****@nomail. nl> wrote:
Yes you caught me. Fine OK Sorry
but now to the point.

I tried several things. What I would like is reading a string that consists
of characters them a degree sign en a diameter sing ( zero with a cross line
(alt-155 on your keyboard - I would not dare to say ascii-155) :-) ); put
them in a string variable and store the result in a
field in a database. Leter I need to make lists with on them the same
characers againg.
And how about all those names with Umlauts (German) like , , etc.
There must be a way to simply read those chracters and store them in a
string variable.
Absolutely - but where are you trying to read them from? What's teh
file format, if you're reading it from a file?
Converting to ascii converts althose character > 127 into a ?
( f etc)
Yes, it would, as those characters aren't in ASCII.
For me, coming from vb6 this was no problem.
Now in C# I have till now not found a way to read these characters . In
spite of all the explenation tou are referring to.

PLEASE show me a piece of code that puts these Character into a string.


Have you tried Encoding.Defaul t as I suggested?

Did you read the page I directed you to?

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.co m>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too
Nov 16 '05 #4
Jon,
First I did not know want you ment by >> Default <<. Since you are referring
to it for the second time I got into the theory a bit more and see, the
Nickle fell and it worked.
Things that are obvious for some people do not need to be that for other
(among them is me) <<

Thanks
Gerrit

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.co m> schreef in bericht
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G.Esmeijer <ge****@nomail. nl> wrote: Yes you caught me. Fine OK Sorry
but now to the point.

I tried several things. What I would like is reading a string that consists of characters them a degree sign en a diameter sing ( zero with a cross line (alt-155 on your keyboard - I would not dare to say ascii-155) :-) ); put
them in a string variable and store the result in a
field in a database. Leter I need to make lists with on them the same
characers againg.
And how about all those names with Umlauts (German) like , , etc.
There must be a way to simply read those chracters and store them in a
string variable.
Absolutely - but where are you trying to read them from? What's teh
file format, if you're reading it from a file?
Converting to ascii converts althose character > 127 into a ?
( f etc)
Yes, it would, as those characters aren't in ASCII.
For me, coming from vb6 this was no problem.
Now in C# I have till now not found a way to read these characters . In
spite of all the explenation tou are referring to.

PLEASE show me a piece of code that puts these Character into a string.


Have you tried Encoding.Defaul t as I suggested?

Did you read the page I directed you to?

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.co m>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too
Nov 16 '05 #5

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