Hi all,
When a user enters a german character in a textbox (such as ö ä ü ß) and I
try to save it, these characters get converted to a different character.
How can I prevent this?
Tia,
Martin 10 5547
Martin wrote:
Hi all,
When a user enters a german character in a textbox (such as ö ä ü ß) and
I try to save it, these characters get converted to a different
character. How can I prevent this?
Tia,
Martin
It sounds like it's a problem with encoding. You are probably either
using an encoding that doesn't support the characters, or using
different encodings for saving and retrieveing the text.
Where do you save it? Text file? Database? Left pocket?
Does the value change when you save it or when you retrieve it?
--
Göran Andersson
_____ http://www.guffa.com
Hi Göran,
Thanks for your reply. I'm saving the texts to a text (ascii) file. I'm not
using any special encoding, in fact I don't have any experience using other
character sets, so I am not aware of how to choose a special kind of
encoding... Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Tia,
Martin
"Göran Andersson" <gu***@guffa.co mwrote in message
news:ev******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP03.phx.gbl...
Martin wrote:
>Hi all,
When a user enters a german character in a textbox (such as ö ä ü ß) and I try to save it, these characters get converted to a different character. How can I prevent this?
Tia, Martin
It sounds like it's a problem with encoding. You are probably either using
an encoding that doesn't support the characters, or using different
encodings for saving and retrieveing the text.
Where do you save it? Text file? Database? Left pocket?
Does the value change when you save it or when you retrieve it?
--
Göran Andersson
_____ http://www.guffa.com
Martin wrote:
Hi Göran,
Thanks for your reply. I'm saving the texts to a text (ascii) file. I'm not
using any special encoding, in fact I don't have any experience using other
character sets, so I am not aware of how to choose a special kind of
encoding... Any help would be greatly appreciated.
A file doesn't contain characters, it contains bytes, so every text file
uses some encoding to represent the characters as bytes.
The ASCII encoding doesn't support any special characters. You should
use the UTF-8 encoding. This is however the default for the methods in
the framework when you don't specify any encoding, so you have to have
done something to use some other encoding.
What does your code look like?
--
Göran Andersson
_____ http://www.guffa.com
Hi again,
The code Im using to read the file is I think pretty straightforward :
Private Sub DoOpenFile(ByVa l ThisFile As String)
Dim Line As String
Try
Dim sr As System.IO.Strea mReader = New
System.IO.Strea mReader(ThisFil e, True)
Line = sr.ReadLine()
sr.Close()
Catch Ex As Exception
MsgBox("Error reading file" & Chr(13) & Chr(13) & Ex.Message,
MsgBoxStyle.Cri tical Or MsgBoxStyle.OkO nly, "Error")
Exit Sub
End Try
Line = DoFormatLine(Li ne)
FillEditor(Line )
FileName = ThisFile
Editor.ReadOnly = False
Me.Text = "Editing " & FileName
End Sub
The text is created in an editor (MultiEdit) and looks like this:
FTX+AAK+1++Es bestehen Vereinbarungen, aus denen sich nachträgliche
Minderungen :des Entgelts ergeben können.+DE
When I open this in my app, it suddenly looks like this:
FTX+AAK+1++Es bestehen Vereinbarungen, aus denen sich nachtr�gliche
Minderungen :des Entgelts ergeben k�nnen.+DE
After your message I added the TRUE parameter in the streamreader (detect
encoding) and set the form's language to German... To no effect.
Tia,
Martin
"Göran Andersson" <gu***@guffa.co mwrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP03.phx.gbl. ..
Martin wrote:
>Hi Göran,
Thanks for your reply. I'm saving the texts to a text (ascii) file. I'm not using any special encoding, in fact I don't have any experience using other character sets, so I am not aware of how to choose a special kind of encoding... Any help would be greatly appreciated.
A file doesn't contain characters, it contains bytes, so every text file
uses some encoding to represent the characters as bytes.
The ASCII encoding doesn't support any special characters. You should use
the UTF-8 encoding. This is however the default for the methods in the
framework when you don't specify any encoding, so you have to have done
something to use some other encoding.
What does your code look like?
--
Göran Andersson
_____ http://www.guffa.com
"Martin" <x@y.comschrieb :
Thanks for your reply. I'm saving the texts to a text (ascii) file.
ASCII is a 7-bit US encoding that doesn't support any umlauts.
Thus you have to use another encoding. 'StreamWriter' uses UTF-8 by default
which can contain umlauts. So, do not pass an ASCII encoding object to the
constructor.
--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>
"Martin" <x@y.comschrieb :
The code Im using to read the file is I think pretty straightforward :
Private Sub DoOpenFile(ByVa l ThisFile As String)
Dim Line As String
Try
Dim sr As System.IO.Strea mReader = New
System.IO.Strea mReader(ThisFil e, True)
Line = sr.ReadLine()
sr.Close()
Catch Ex As Exception
MsgBox("Error reading file" & Chr(13) & Chr(13) & Ex.Message,
MsgBoxStyle.Cri tical Or MsgBoxStyle.OkO nly, "Error")
Exit Sub
End Try
Line = DoFormatLine(Li ne)
FillEditor(Line )
FileName = ThisFile
Editor.ReadOnly = False
Me.Text = "Editing " & FileName
End Sub
The text is created in an editor (MultiEdit) and looks like this:
FTX+AAK+1++Es bestehen Vereinbarungen, aus denen sich nachträgliche
Minderungen :des Entgelts ergeben können.+DE
When I open this in my app, it suddenly looks like this:
FTX+AAK+1++Es bestehen Vereinbarungen, aus denen sich nachtr�gliche
Minderungen :des Entgelts ergeben k�nnen.+DE
So, you are not writing the data using .NET's 'StreamWriter' at all. Most
likely the other application stores the file using the Windows ANSI encoding
with the system's default codepage. In order to read the file, pass
'System.Text.En coding.Default' to the 'StreamReader'' s constructor or
determine the encoding for a certain codepage using 'Encoding.GetEn coding'.
After your message I added the TRUE parameter in the streamreader (detect
encoding) and set the form's language to German... To no effect.
Well, detecting the encoding isn't always possible because byte sequences
contained in the file may be valid for different encodings.
--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>
Hi Herfried,
Thanks a lot. Adding the parameter System.Text.Enc oding.Default did the
trick!
However, I also do a rewrite with the SreamWriter. I assume I need to add
the same parameter there?
Martin
"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi************ ***@gmx.atwrote in message
news:uY******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl...
"Martin" <x@y.comschrieb :
>The code Im using to read the file is I think pretty straightforward :
Private Sub DoOpenFile(ByVa l ThisFile As String) Dim Line As String
Try Dim sr As System.IO.Strea mReader = New System.IO.Stre amReader(ThisFi le, True) Line = sr.ReadLine() sr.Close() Catch Ex As Exception MsgBox("Error reading file" & Chr(13) & Chr(13) & Ex.Message, MsgBoxStyle.Cr itical Or MsgBoxStyle.OkO nly, "Error") Exit Sub End Try
Line = DoFormatLine(Li ne) FillEditor(Line ) FileName = ThisFile Editor.ReadOnly = False Me.Text = "Editing " & FileName End Sub
The text is created in an editor (MultiEdit) and looks like this:
FTX+AAK+1++E s bestehen Vereinbarungen, aus denen sich nachträgliche Minderungen :des Entgelts ergeben können.+DE
When I open this in my app, it suddenly looks like this:
FTX+AAK+1++E s bestehen Vereinbarungen, aus denen sich nachtr�gliche Minderungen :des Entgelts ergeben k�nnen.+DE
So, you are not writing the data using .NET's 'StreamWriter' at all. Most
likely the other application stores the file using the Windows ANSI
encoding with the system's default codepage. In order to read the file,
pass 'System.Text.En coding.Default' to the 'StreamReader'' s constructor or
determine the encoding for a certain codepage using
'Encoding.GetEn coding'.
>After your message I added the TRUE parameter in the streamreader (detect encoding) and set the form's language to German... To no effect.
Well, detecting the encoding isn't always possible because byte sequences
contained in the file may be valid for different encodings.
--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>
"Martin" <x@y.comschrieb :
However, I also do a rewrite with the SreamWriter. I assume I need to add
the same parameter there?
Yes.
--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>
Martin wrote:
Hi again,
The code Im using to read the file is I think pretty straightforward :
Private Sub DoOpenFile(ByVa l ThisFile As String)
Dim Line As String
Try
Dim sr As System.IO.Strea mReader = New
System.IO.Strea mReader(ThisFil e, True)
Line = sr.ReadLine()
sr.Close()
Catch Ex As Exception
MsgBox("Error reading file" & Chr(13) & Chr(13) & Ex.Message,
MsgBoxStyle.Cri tical Or MsgBoxStyle.OkO nly, "Error")
Exit Sub
End Try
Line = DoFormatLine(Li ne)
FillEditor(Line )
FileName = ThisFile
Editor.ReadOnly = False
Me.Text = "Editing " & FileName
End Sub
The text is created in an editor (MultiEdit) and looks like this:
FTX+AAK+1++Es bestehen Vereinbarungen, aus denen sich nachträgliche
Minderungen :des Entgelts ergeben können.+DE
When I open this in my app, it suddenly looks like this:
FTX+AAK+1++Es bestehen Vereinbarungen, aus denen sich nachtr�gliche
Minderungen :des Entgelts ergeben k�nnen.+DE
After your message I added the TRUE parameter in the streamreader
(detect encoding) and set the form's language to German... To no effect.
Tia,
Martin
Do you specify any encoding when you save the file? In the Windows
Notepad you do, I doubt that a more advanced editor would completely
lack this feature.
Save the file as UTF-8, and you should have no problems reading it.
--
Göran Andersson
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