Reading and Writing Text files containing Japanese characters

[aditid]

Hello,

I am writing a small tool to automate a process of conversion. The tool reads a text file for some commands and writes the equivalent new command gain to a text file.
I am using streamReader to read and streamwriter to write the text files.The input file contains some comments etc. in japanese which are to be written as it is to the output file.

I am having problem in reading/writing these japanese char. It shows just junk.

Could somebody tell, how to read the double byte japanese characters and write them to the o/p file.

Thanks in anticipation,
Regards,
aditid

 

[chiph]

What encoding is the file in?

In order to use Japanese characters, traditionally you've had to use DBCS (double-byte character set), which dates from the early DOS days. Since Unicode came out, you would use UTF-16 (Unicode) or UTF-8 encoding. But it all depends on what encoding was used to write the file.

Chip H.


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[aditid]

Hello Chip H,

Thanks for your reply. I think the file was created in Shift JIS encoding. Can u suggest the solution now ?

Regards,
aditid

 

[chiph]

You can do this (from MSDN):

Encoding enc = Encoding.GetEncoding("shift-jis");

Once you have an encoding object, you use it's Convert method to change a string containing your Shift-JIS data into Unicode, which the rest of .NET can handle.

Chip H.


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[aditid]

Hello Chip H,

Thanks a lot for your suggestion. I found similar solution on a japanese site. Since I am using streamReader and StreamWriter and the tip on this site was for stream, I used that piece of code. I am giving that code below. Still, thanx fot sparing time and suggesting solution to my problem.
Here are the code lines :

objReader = New StreamReader(txtPath.Text + "\" + file.Name, System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("shift-jis"))

objWriter = New StreamWriter(strdest + "\" + file.Name, False, System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("shift-jis"))

Regards,
aditid