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Reading non-standard charcters with StreamReader
1252 coding does not work on my files as I mentioned above. Neither do any of the other encodings. I tried djinn01's technique for finding the encoding of the file. 1252 was what came up. VS maybe makes a guess like IE? It's weird everything that you open the file with works ok except for...- mtbPierre
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- Forum: C# (C sharp): Microsoft
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Reading non-standard charcters with StreamReader
I've done some research elsewhere and it would appear I'm not the only one to have discovered this problem. Just do a search on Google groups and you'll find loads - none with a fix. You can also use for example: StreamReader sr = new...- mtbPierre
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- Forum: C# (C sharp): Microsoft
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Reading non-standard charcters with StreamReader
The problem is that the file is not UTF8 or any of the other formats that the StreamReader seems to support. The file is text from a UNIX system. The characters are all (I think) extended ASCII. The files will open fine in notepad or the .NET IDE or whatever. It would seem .NET has a textreader...- mtbPierre
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- Forum: C# (C sharp): Microsoft
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Reading non-standard charcters with StreamReader
I'm using a StreamReader to process files from different countries in this simple way: StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(@"c:\test",System.Text.Encoding.UTF8); while((row=sr.ReadLine()) != null) { //process the line } sr.Close(); However the reader just ignores non-standard...- mtbPierre
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