French charactor

[Yongjian]

Hello,

I want to read a text file which contains French charactor, then modify some of the
sentence, save it as a new text file.
But I found the new text file lost all the French charactors.
Anybody can help me?

Thanks,

Yongjian

My code:
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(st Source,Encoding .UTF8);
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(st Destination,fal se, Encoding.UTF8);

while ((stLine = sr.ReadLine())! =null)
{
// add something to the stLine, then write it to a new file

sw.WriteLine(st Line);
}
sr.Close();
sw.Close();

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Yongjian <Yo******@discu ssions.microsof t.com> wrote:

I want to read a text file which contains French charactor, then modify some of the
sentence, save it as a new text file.
But I found the new text file lost all the French charactors.
Anybody can help me?

Chances are you're just using the wrong encoding. Do you know for sure
what encoding your original file is in?

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[YJ]

Thank you for yor replying.

I don't know the what encoding the original file is. I believe it should use default encoding. It looks like(it contains "é"):

Plan name: Régime de retraite des employés rémunérés Ã* l'heure de Les Poudres Métalliques du Québec Ltée.
Province of registration: QC
Registration number: 25803
Service end date: 31 May 2003
"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote:

Yongjian <Yo******@discu ssions.microsof t.com> wrote:

I want to read a text file which contains French charactor, then modify some of the
sentence, save it as a new text file.
But I found the new text file lost all the French charactors.
Anybody can help me?

Chances are you're just using the wrong encoding. Do you know for sure
what encoding your original file is in?

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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

YJ <YJ@discussions .microsoft.com> wrote:

I don't know the what encoding the original file is. I believe it
should use default encoding. It looks like(it contains "?"):

Well, you can try using Encoding.Defaul t (which isn't the one used by
default, confusingly enough) but to be honest if you don't know the
encoding, there's no guarantee you'll get it right.

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[Joerg Jooss]

YJ wrote:

Thank you for yor replying.

I don't know the what encoding the original file is. I believe it
should use default encoding. It looks like(it contains "é"):

1. Run your favorite hex editor.
2. Compare non-ASCII characters' byte values with the code pages you find at
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/r...ce/cphome.mspx. Start with Windows
1252 (educated guess ;->).

Cheers,

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[Jasmine]

Hi ,

I used "Request.Pa rams["sName"]" on the Page_Load event.

I could not read the French like "é" If the sName has French, ie. if I pass the url like "webFom1?sName= 'abé'", then the Request.Params["sName"]"will equal to "ab", the "é" get choped.,
What should I do?

I used System.text; and set Request.content Encoding =encoding.defau lt or Request.content Encoding =encoding.utf-7, none of them works.

Thanks, Jasmine

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote:

YJ <YJ@discussions .microsoft.com> wrote:

I don't know the what encoding the original file is. I believe it
should use default encoding. It looks like(it contains "?"):

Well, you can try using Encoding.Defaul t (which isn't the one used by
default, confusingly enough) but to be honest if you don't know the
encoding, there's no guarantee you'll get it right.

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[Jasmine]

Hi ,

I used "Request.Pa rams["sName"]" on the Page_Load event.

I could not read the French like "é" If the sName has French, ie. if I pass the url like "webFom1?sName= 'abé'", then the Request.Params["sName"]"will equal to "ab", the "é" get choped.,
What should I do?

I used System.text; and set Request.content Encoding =encoding.defau lt or Request.content Encoding =encoding.utf-7, none of them works.

Thanks, Jasmine

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote:

YJ <YJ@discussions .microsoft.com> wrote:

I don't know the what encoding the original file is. I believe it
should use default encoding. It looks like(it contains "?"):

Well, you can try using Encoding.Defaul t (which isn't the one used by
default, confusingly enough) but to be honest if you don't know the
encoding, there's no guarantee you'll get it right.

--
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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Jasmine <Ja*****@discus sions.microsoft .com> wrote:

I used "Request.Pa rams["sName"]" on the Page_Load event.

I could not read the French like "?" If the sName has French, ie. if
I pass the url like "webFom1?sName= 'ab?'", then the
Request.Params["sName"]"will equal to "ab", the "?" get choped.,
What should I do?

You should avoid passing things in the URL, to start with. URL content
encoding is a murky business, from what I remember. If you make the
request a POST rather than a GET, and put the data in the content
rather than the URL, you're more likely to get something useful.

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