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

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