[jens]

Hello!

I am trying to read a file that consists of rows of text. All works well except that special characters are not read correctly. What happens is that the variable "input" gets the first line correctly and all characters from the second except "åäöÅÄÖ" correctly. The special characters just disappear. I've been trying to use "unicode" while declaring the objReader but it didn't work. Now I'm out of ideas. Help please?

The code I'm using (VB2008Express)

   Private Function fileToStrings2(ByVal filNamn As String) As boolean
        Dim input As String
        Dim objReader As New System.IO.StreamReader(filNamn)

        Do While objReader.Peek() <> -1
            input = objReader.ReadLine()  ' <- Offending line of code 
            msgbox(input)
        Loop

        return True
   End Function

The rows I'm trying to read

Quote

#2008-11-07 10:55:41#,"First line of text with no special characters"
#2008-11-07 10:57:24#,"Second line with (åäöÅÄÖ) special characters"

Regards
/Jens

PS: I did take some functionality out of the code to clarify and get my point across.

This post has been edited by jens: 18 November 2008 - 03:07 PM

[magicmonkey]

Try UTF7 System.Text.Encoding.UTF7... hell try them all thats my lazy way of figuring it out...

[jens]

Hi!

Thanks. You write "try them all"... Them all?? How can I find out what "them all" is? I guess there is a listing somwhere. And, just in case, it is where I wrote codingStuffGoesHere that I put the coding information, no?

 Dim objReader As New System.IO.StreamReader(filNamn, codingStuffGoesHere?)  

Thanks
/Jens

PS: How do you make the little box that surrounds System.Text.Encoding.UTF7?

[jens]

A little later...: Hello again!

Thank you for your help, I followed you suggestion and found that this

Using inputFile As IO.StreamReader = My.Computer.FileSystem.OpenTextFileReader(filNamn, System.Text.Encoding.Default)

...did the trick.

Makes me wonder though, how come .Encoding.Default makes it work? Isn't ".Default" the default?

Regards
/Jens

[magicmonkey]

Well Default is the OS's default code page, which I don't recommend to use as your code might not work on another machine with the same input files. I would keep changing them till you find the one that does work so you don't run into the problems if you tend to run the code else where.

You can still specify the encoding with the streamreader Dim objReader As New System.IO.StreamReader(filNamn, System.Text.Encoding.Default) , just as you guessed.

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