How to get StreamReader to properly read unusual characters?

[alien]

Hi, I'm using a StreamReader (readLine()) to read text from a file, but some
lines in the file I'm reading have odd characters, such as the Euro symbol,
etc. I find that no matter what encoding I use with the StreamReader, these
characters either get entirely ignored, replaced with a "?", or replaced by
some other character. Is there anything I can do to make this work, or
should I use something like BinaryReader?


Thanks.

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Alien,
When you create the StreamReader be certain that you use the correct
Encoding class for your file.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../frlrfSystemIOStreamReaderClassctorTopic4.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../frlrfSystemIOStreamReaderClassctorTopic6.asp

For information on Encoding, Unicode & character sets see:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
&
http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/unicode.html

Hope this helps
Jay

 

[alien]

Thanks, that helped, I've got it working now.

Alien,
When you create the StreamReader be certain that you use the correct
Encoding class for your file.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../frlrfSystemIOStreamReaderClassctorTopic6.asp

For information on Encoding, Unicode & character sets see:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
&
http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/unicode.html

Hope this helps
Jay