Problem with UTF8 files

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Hi All,

I'm trying to read an UTF8 encoded file and write it with Encoding.Default.
The problem is that the accented characters in the output file are not
good when I open the file using an editor. I have question marks e.g
Bezenc?on.

Here is the code I use:
Dim sr As System.IO.StreamReader = New System.IO.StreamReader(fname,
Encoding.UTF8)
Dim S As String = sr.ReadToEnd
response.writel(S) 'NOTE THAT THE ACCENTED CHARS ARE OK HERE
sr.close()
Dim w As System.IO.StreamWriter = New System.IO.StreamWriter(fout,
false, Encoding.Default)
w.write(S)
w.Close()

Any idea ?

Thanks,
Jean-Michel
 
Hi All,

I'm trying to read an UTF8 encoded file and write it with Encoding.Default..
The problem is that the accented characters in the output file are not
good when I open the file using an editor. I have question marks e.g
Bezenc?on.

Here is the code I use:
        Dim sr As System.IO.StreamReader = New System.IO.StreamReader(fname,
Encoding.UTF8)
        Dim S As String = sr.ReadToEnd
        response.writel(S) 'NOTE THAT THE ACCENTED CHARS ARE OK HERE
        sr.close()
        Dim w As System.IO.StreamWriter = New System.IO.StreamWriter(fout,
false, Encoding.Default)
        w.write(S)
        w.Close()

Any idea ?

Thanks,
Jean-Michel
Click to expand...

What is your Encoding.Default? Use Encoding.UTF8 instead, or set it in
the globalization tag of the web.config file.
 
Alexey said:
What is your Encoding.Default? Use Encoding.UTF8 instead, or set it in
the globalization tag of the web.config file.
Click to expand...

Here is my web.config:
<globalization
fileEncoding="iso-8859-1"
requestEncoding="iso-8859-1"
responseEncoding="UTF-8"
/>

The problem is that I don't want to write the file with Encoding.UTF8
because I cannot read it with text editors (Notepad, scite, ..)

Thanks,
Jean-Michel
 
jmr said:
The problem is that I don't want to write the file with Encoding.UTF8
because I cannot read it with text editors (Notepad, scite, ..)
Click to expand...

I don't know scite but Notepad can certainly deal with UTF-8 encoded
documents.
 
Martin said:
I don't know scite but Notepad can certainly deal with UTF-8 encoded
documents.
Click to expand...

Scite is also supposed to read UTF-8 documents but with this specific
file, it cannot display accented characters (same for notepad). If I
open this file with a browser or wordpad, that's ok. This seems very
strange to me.

Jean-Michel
 
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