Reading a not UTF-8 encoding file

[leticia larrosa]

Hi,

I try to read a file that have 8 bit character, but contain some
character
whose code is more than 128 (spanish character).

When I read this file using ASCII (Dim oRead As StreamReader = New
StreamReader("C :\...\name.txt" , System.Text.Enc oding.ASCII)), this
special characters aren't appear.

If I try red this file with some unicode like UTF-8(the defualt
encodign for the OpenText() ) of course that did't work, because of
this character don't have 16 bit.
I'm not an expert of unicode matter.

Can someone help me reading this type of file for show his content in
web page.

Thank

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[Mattias Sjögren]

Try using Encoding.Defaul t, that's your default ANSI code page.

Mattias

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[Cor]

Hi Leticia,

ASCII is 7 bit.

You have to use the Unicode. But I asume you are working in Spanish, why you
want to encode a Spanish characterset to a Spanish characterset?

Cor

When I read this file using ASCII (Dim oRead As StreamReader = New
StreamReader("C :\...\name.txt" , System.Text.Enc oding.ASCII)), this
special characters aren't appear.

If I try red this file with some unicode like UTF-8(the defualt
encodign for the OpenText() ) of course that did't work, because of
this character don't have 16 bit.
I'm not an expert of unicode matter.

[José Manuel Agüero]

Hello, leticia:

If the file was written in Windows it has probably ANSI encoding:
Dim oRead As StreamReader = New StreamReader("C :\...\name.txt" , System.Text.Enc oding.Default)

If it was written in DOS it was probably encoded with codepage 850:
Dim oRead As StreamReader = _
New StreamReader("C :\...\name.txt" , New System.Text.Enc oding(850))

If it was encoded with other codepage, substitute 850 with the codepage number. For example, US codepage is 437.

Regards.
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| Hi,
|
| I try to read a file that have 8 bit character, but contain some
| character
| whose code is more than 128 (spanish character).
|
| When I read this file using ASCII (Dim oRead As StreamReader = New
| StreamReader("C :\...\name.txt" , System.Text.Enc oding.ASCII)), this
| special characters aren't appear.
|
| If I try red this file with some unicode like UTF-8(the defualt
| encodign for the OpenText() ) of course that did't work, because of
| this character don't have 16 bit.
| I'm not an expert of unicode matter.
|
| Can someone help me reading this type of file for show his content in
| web page.
|
| Thank