Text reader removing special characters

David Lambert

Hi, I have a text reader that is parsing a file, I have a
number of lines with accents eg. "Herr Dietman Löflers
(CEO)" my text reader returns: "Herr Dietman Lflers
(CEO)", it drops all the characters with the accents. Is
there a way to keep them in?

Thanks in advance for any help.

dave

Jul 21 '05 #1

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Mattias Sjögren

David,

Make sure you use the encoding that matches the text encoding in the
file you're reading. The StreamReader class - if that's what you're
using - has a number of constructors that lets you specify the
appropriate Encoding.

Mattias

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Jul 21 '05 #2

Mattias Sjögren

Jul 21 '05 #3

Tom Clement

This great overview from Joel on Software may be of some help.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

Tom Clement
Apptero, Inc.

"David Lambert" <mr************@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi, I have a text reader that is parsing a file, I have a
number of lines with accents eg. "Herr Dietman Löflers
(CEO)" my text reader returns: "Herr Dietman Lflers
(CEO)", it drops all the characters with the accents. Is
there a way to keep them in?

Thanks in advance for any help.

dave

Jul 21 '05 #4

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