StreamReader and accentuated characters

[Marcos Ribeiro]

Hi
I'm trying to read a textfile using System.IO.StreamReader, but all
accentuated characters are skiped.
Why's that? There is any workaround?
Thanks
Marcos

[Jeremy Cowles]

Sounds like an encoding problem... can you post some code?

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Jeremy
"Marcos Ribeiro" <ki**@barretos.com.br> wrote in message
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Hi
I'm trying to read a textfile using System.IO.StreamReader, but all
accentuated characters are skiped.
Why's that? There is any workaround?
Thanks
Marcos

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Marcos,
You have the incorrect encoding set on the StreamReader.

When you create the StreamReader use the constructor that accepts a
System.Text.Encoding object, then pass an Encoding object that is the
correct format (code page) for your file.

You can use one of the predefined encodings such as
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, or you can use Encoding.GetEncoding to get a
specific code page.

Hope this helps
Jay

"Marcos Ribeiro" <ki**@barretos.com.br> wrote in message
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Hi
I'm trying to read a textfile using System.IO.StreamReader, but all
accentuated characters are skiped.
Why's that? There is any workaround?
Thanks
Marcos

[Marcos Ribeiro]

Here it is:

Dim sBigString As String
Dim sr As System.IO.StreamReader
sr = System.IO.File.OpenText("MyArq.html")
While sr.Peek <> -1
sBigString &= sr.ReadLine()
End While
sr.Close()

If MyArq.html contain characters like çâé they are zapped from the string
So my Middle Name "Masagão" becomes "Masago"

Marcos

"Jeremy Cowles" <jeremy.cowles[nosp@m]asifl.com> escreveu na mensagem
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Sounds like an encoding problem... can you post some code?

~
Jeremy
"Marcos Ribeiro" <ki**@barretos.com.br> wrote in message
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Hi
I'm trying to read a textfile using System.IO.StreamReader, but all
accentuated characters are skiped.
Why's that? There is any workaround?
Thanks
Marcos

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Hello,

"Marcos Ribeiro" <ki**@barretos.com.br> schrieb:

I'm trying to read a textfile using System.IO.StreamReader, but all
accentuated characters are skiped.
Why's that? There is any workaround?

You read the file with the wrong encoding. You can specify an encoding in
the StreamReader's constructor.

HTH,
Herfried K. Wagner
--
MVP · VB Classic, VB .NET
http://www.mvps.org/dotnet

[Marcos Ribeiro]

Its OK now
Im using
Dim sr As System.IO.StreamReader = New System.IO.StreamReader("Myfile",
System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252))
While sr.Peek <> -1
sRet &= sr.ReadLine()
End While
sr.Close()
sr = Nothing

Thanks to all

"Marcos Ribeiro" <ki**@barretos.com.br> escreveu na mensagem
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Hi
I'm trying to read a textfile using System.IO.StreamReader, but all
accentuated characters are skiped.
Why's that? There is any workaround?
Thanks
Marcos