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c#filestreamwriter

how to read special character like é, â and others in C#

I can't read those special characters I tried like this

1st way #

string xmlFile = File.ReadAllText(fileName);

2nd way #

FileStream fs = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
StreamReader r = new StreamReader(fs);
string s = r.ReadToEnd();

But both statements don't understand those special characters. How should I read?

UPDATE ###

I also try all encoding with 

string xmlFile = File.ReadAllText(fileName, Encoding. );

but still don't understand those special characters.

Solution

  • There is no such thing as "special character". What those likely are is extended ascii characters from the latin1 set (iso-8859-1). You can read those by supplying encoding explicitly to the stream reader (otherwise it will assume UTF8)

    using (StreamReader r = new StreamReader(fileName, Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1")))
    r.ReadToEnd();