Missing chars after reading line

[Guest]

Hi,

I'm just developing a .net (compact) application and therefore make use of
the StreamReader class - and especially the ReadLine function. Now, when I
try to read lines from a text file that includes 'german' strings with
specific chars (like ä,ü,ö, etc.) they do not appear in the returned string.
What's wrong here?

By the way, if it is of any importance, I currently use an english version
of VS.net 2003 - that's why there's also an english .net framework installed
on the pocket pc I'm testing on.

Greetings,
Andreas

 

[Tim Wilson]

Sounds like it might be an encoding issue. I would say (a) make sure that
you're using the latest service pack (SP3 [1]), and (b) try explicitly
specifying an encoding when creating the StreamReader instance. There are
some conversations in the google archives about this, here is one.
http://www.google.ca/groups?hl=en&l...i4wjm96cnomg%24.hsy7vt2u1n39.dlg%4040tude.net

[1]
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...11-194b-4c00-b445-f92bec03032f&DisplayLang=en

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I'm just developing a .net (compact) application and therefore make use of
the StreamReader class - and especially the ReadLine function. Now, when I
try to read lines from a text file that includes 'german' strings with
specific chars (like ?,?,?, etc.) they do not appear in the returned string.
What's wrong here?

By the way, if it is of any importance, I currently use an english version
of VS.net 2003 - that's why there's also an english .net framework installed
on the pocket pc I'm testing on.

Chances are you're using the wrong encoding.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/unicode.html