Hi,

reading a textfile with the ReadLine method of a Streamreader objects the
resulting string does not contain the special characters from the source
file: e.g. Paragraph § and all the umlauts are missing.

Is there a work around or solution for this problem?

Thanks in advance
--
Best regards

Henry

If you are using any special encoding format, then you need to specify that
when you open the stream.

Dim sr As New StreamReader(fs, Encoding.GetEncoding(1256))

Rgds,
Anand M
VB.NET MVP
http://www.dotnetindia.com

"Henry" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> reading a textfile with the ReadLine method of a Streamreader objects the
> resulting string does not contain the special characters from the source
> file: e.g. Paragraph § and all the umlauts are missing.
>
> Is there a work around or solution for this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance
> --
> Best regards
>
> Henry