Streamwriter removes french characters

[Rob]

Hi,

I have a small VB.Net program that reads in an HTML file using a
FileStream (this file was created by MS Word "Save as HTML" feature),
uses regular expressions to remove all unwanted code and then re-writes
the file.

It works fine but when I execute this on a french web page...the
StreamWriter removes all of the french characters. Here's a piece of the
code:

Dim filename As String = txtFilename.Tex t.ToString

Dim sr As StreamReader

sr = File.OpenText(f ilename)

Dim textstream As String = sr.ReadToEnd()

sr.Close()

Dim newtext As String

newtext = CleanHTML(texts tream)

Dim fs As New FileStream(Outp utFilename, FileMode.Create ,
FileAccess.Writ e)

Dim sw As New StreamWriter(fs )

' I've also tried:
'Dim sw as New StreamWriter(fs , System.Text.Enc oding.UTF8)

sw.WriteLine(ne wtext)

sw.Close()

I'm kinda new to .Net Development...d oes anyone see what's wrong here?

Thanks

*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***

[Spam Catcher]

Rob <ro****@hotmail .comwrote in news:OAplhegnHH A.4552
@TK2MSFTNGP04.p hx.gbl:

newtext = CleanHTML(texts tream)

What does this function do? Is it stripping out french characters?

When you "clean" HTML... what are you doing? Have you tried
Server.HTMLEnco de instead?

[Rob]

When I run the CleanHTML function...I remove a lot of garbage that comes
with saving a Word document as HTML. I remove all the styles, span tags
and a lot of other tags that are not needed.

When I clean up a french webpage, the StreamReader or StreamWriter
doesn't seen to understand french characters and strips them out but I
want to preserve them.

Another thing I've tried is, rather than using this line:
Dim sr As StreamReader
sr = File.OpenText(f ilename)

I've replaced it with this
Dim sr As New StreamReader(fi lename, System.Text.Enc oding.Default)

but this returns strange result as well.

*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***

[Rob]

I got it.

I added System.text.Enc oding.Default to my StreamWriter as well as my
StreamReader and that fixed it.

Thanks

*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Rob" <ro****@hotmail .comschrieb:

I have a small VB.Net program that reads in an HTML file using a
FileStream (this file was created by MS Word "Save as HTML" feature),
uses regular expressions to remove all unwanted code and then re-writes
the file.

It works fine but when I execute this on a french web page...the
StreamWriter removes all of the french characters. Here's a piece of the
code:

Dim filename As String = txtFilename.Tex t.ToString

Remove the '.ToString' as 'txtFilename.Te xt' is already of type 'String'.

Dim sr As StreamReader

sr = File.OpenText(f ilename)

Dim textstream As String = sr.ReadToEnd()

Note that the 'StreamReader' object is initialized for the UTF-8 encoding by
default. If your file has been encoded using a different encoding, such as
Windows' default ANSI codepage, then pass 'System.Text.En coding.Default' in
the parameter accepting an encoding of the 'StreamReader'' s constructor.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>