StreamReader won't read pound-sign

[Per Rasmussen]

When I use a StreamReader to read lines from a file, it seems to skip some
"special" characters like ?, æ, ø and å. How do I prevent it from doing
this? I know it works if the text file is in unicode but unfortunately this
is not a possibility for me in this case because I do not save the text
files myself and there are way too many to do manuel convertion.

Thanks in advance,
Per Rasmussen.

[Marcin Grzêbski]

Hi,

Per Rasmussen napisa³(a):

When I use a StreamReader to read lines from a file, it seems to skip some
"special" characters like ?, æ, ø and å. How do I prevent it from doing
this? I know it works if the text file is in unicode but unfortunately this
is not a possibility for me in this case because I do not save the text
files myself and there are way too many to do manuel convertion.

Thanks in advance,
Per Rasmussen.

You will need to set right encoding in a StreamReader
constructor or set the encoding detection.
I don't know what a code page you'll have to work with?
If you don't know that encoding you'll need to consider
of raw-byte reader-converter.

With regards
Marcin

[Morten Wennevik]

Hi Per,

As Marcin said, the encoding is wrong. The default encoding for a
StreamReader is UTF8, but most likely you are reading something written
with ANSI encoding.

Try
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(filename, Encoding.Default);
On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:00:57 +0200, Per Rasmussen <[e-mail]:

When I use a StreamReader to read lines from a file, it seems to skip
some
"special" characters like ?, æ, ø and å. How do I prevent it from doing
this? I know it works if the text file is in unicode but unfortunately
this
is not a possibility for me in this case because I do not save the text
files myself and there are way too many to do manuel convertion.

Thanks in advance,
Per Rasmussen.

--
Happy Coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]