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

You have to tell the StreamReader that you are reading Unicode like so

StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(stream, Encoding.Unicode);

If your file is of some other encoding, specify it as the second parameter