How to read a text file populated by multi-byte chars(e.g. Chinese chars )?

[Peter]

Hi,everybody,

If I create a text file like "Sub WriteTextFile" I can read the file
"file1.txt" using "Sub ReadTextFile" correctly, Whereas If I create the same
text file using NotePad.exe I can only read out these 2 strings: " is a
Chinese person's name" and "English". Need I make some conversion?

Private Sub WriteTextFile
Dim file1 As New StreamWriter("file1.txt")

With file1
.WriteLine("ÕÅÁ¢Ð is a Chinese person's name")
.WriteLine("English")
.Close()
End With
End Sub

Private Sub ReadTextFile
Dim file2 As New System.IO.StreamReader("file1.txt")
Dim words As String = file.ReadToEnd()
file.Close()
End Sub

Thanks in advance,
Peter