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

File.OpenText() always uses an UTF-8 StreamReader implicitly. Create your own StreamReader instance instead and specify the desired encoding. like

using (StreamReader reader =  new StreamReader(@"C:\test.txt", Encoding.Default)
 {
 // ...
 }