What encoding are you using ?
On Jan 2, 8:53 pm, AstroDrabb <[email protected]> wrote: > I am using a TextReader and TextWriter to read in a flat file. The system > that takes the file after processing is very picky and will puke if even off > by one byte. > > The file has about 1,000,000 lines and the line length varies up to 3,000 > chars. > > I was comparing the output and noticed one error. A line record with an E > with the squiggle above it like : Jeff PEÑA gets corrupted when writing it > back. It comes out like Jeff PE�A. WTF? > > Looking at the original file in TextPad it says: > Code set is: ANSI > File type: PC > > TextPad says the same for the processed file. > > Is there a certain reader I should use that will not bork the accented chars? > I need to read the file one line at a time with ReadLine() because I don't > know how long any one line will be. > > Thanks for any tips. > > Jim
