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

I had the same problem and my solution was simple: instead of

Encoding.ASCII

use

Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1")

The answer was found here.

Edit: more solutions. This maybe more accurate one:

Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);

Also, in some cases this will work for you too if your OS default encoding matches file encoding:

Encoding.Default;