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Bug: Streamreader.ReadLine omits special characters

Hi,

reading a textfile with the ReadLine method of a Streamreader objects the
resulting string does not contain the special characters from the source
file: e.g. Paragraph § and all the umlauts are missing.

Is there a work around or solution for this problem?

Thanks in advance
--
Best regards

Henry
Nov 21 '05 #1
1 3348
If you are using any special encoding format, then you need to specify that
when you open the stream.

Dim sr As New StreamReader(fs, Encoding.GetEncoding(1256))

Rgds,
Anand M
VB.NET MVP
http://www.dotnetindia.com

"Henry" wrote:
Hi,

reading a textfile with the ReadLine method of a Streamreader objects the
resulting string does not contain the special characters from the source
file: e.g. Paragraph § and all the umlauts are missing.

Is there a work around or solution for this problem?

Thanks in advance
--
Best regards

Henry

Nov 21 '05 #2

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