Invalid characters in File.ReadAllText

Question

I\'m calling File.ReadAllText() in a program designed to format some files that I have.

Some of these files contain the ® (174) symbol. H

Answer 1

This is likely due to a mismatch in the Encoding. Use the ReadAllText overload which allows you to specify the proper Encoding to use when reading the file.

The default overload will assume UTF-8 unless it can detect UTF-32. Any other encoding will come through incorrectly.