Saving xml with accentuated characters

[Cesar Ronchese]

Hello, All!

I'm working with accentuated characters in my XML files, and I have found
problems to load and save it.

First, for this case, I always have my XML in memory, and I load it via
LoadXML (please, ignore incorrect concatenations for this sample):
Dim cXml As New Xml.XmlDocument
Dim strXML as String

strXML = "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<SETTINGS>
<COLUMNS>
<COLUMN INDEX="Code" WIDTH="0" Alias="Código">
</COLUMN>
</COLUMNS>
</SETTINGS>"

cXml.LoadXml(Settings)

'done, then I can do my changes
'.....

Then, when I need restore to memory that XML, the word "Código" becomes
"Csdigo". I save this manner:
Dim ms As New IO.MemoryStream
Dim arrBytes() As Byte
dim strXML as String

'saves my xml to a MemoryStream object
myXMLObject.Save(ms)

'read XML from MemoryStream
ms.Position = 0
ReDim arrBytes(ms.Length - 1)
ms.Read(arrBytes, 0, ms.Length)

'convert the bytes to string
Dim AE As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding
strXML = AE.GetString(arrBytes)

Well, the word "Código" remains changed to "Csdigo". Its OK, if only in
files or strings, but, when I try reload to XML object again, the value
remains "Csdigo".
Have I made somethink wrong? Or there are some solution for it?

Thanks in advance!

Cesar

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* Cesar Ronchese wrote in microsoft.public.dotnet.xml:

'convert the bytes to string
Dim AE As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding
strXML = AE.GetString(arrBytes)

Well, the word "Código" remains changed to "Csdigo". Its OK, if only in
files or strings, but, when I try reload to XML object again, the value
remains "Csdigo".

The problem here is that the ASCIIEncoding class does not support this
character, you should use UTF-8 or UTF-16 for your XML documents as
those encodings are most widely supported by XML processors, to do so
you could use the System.Text.UTF8Encoding class, but there are better
ways to store XML documents.

[Cesar Ronchese]

Cool! That works!

Was needed delete the encoding header, but was nice.

Thanks!

[]'s
Cesar
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* Cesar Ronchese wrote in microsoft.public.dotnet.xml:

'convert the bytes to string
Dim AE As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding
strXML = AE.GetString(arrBytes)

Well, the word "Código" remains changed to "Csdigo". Its OK, if only in
files or strings, but, when I try reload to XML object again, the value
remains "Csdigo".

The problem here is that the ASCIIEncoding class does not support this
character, you should use UTF-8 or UTF-16 for your XML documents as
those encodings are most widely supported by XML processors, to do so
you could use the System.Text.UTF8Encoding class, but there are better
ways to store XML documents.