C# Help reading foreign characters using StreamReader

Question

I\'m using the code below to read a text file that contains foreign characters, the file is encoded ANSI and looks fine in notepad. The code below doesn\'t work, when the fi

Answer 1

Yes, it could be with the actual encoding of the file, probably unicode. Try UTF-8 as that is the most common form of unicode encoding. Otherwise if the file ASCII then standard ASCII encoding should work.