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

Question

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

1st way #

string xmlFile = File.ReadAllText(fileName);

2nd way #

Answer 1

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();