well you need to read the BOM ( Byte Order Mark )
but the streamreader has an option that will read this for you when getting
the data
Dim sr As New StreamReader("c:\aFileWithUnknownEncoding.txt", True) ' the
true flag stands for detect encoding by BOM
not VB but might be of some usage to you
http://www.devhood.com/tutorials/tutorial_details.aspx?tutorial_id=469
regards
Michel Posseth [MCP]
Is there an attribute that I can test to tell whether a file is saved as
ascii, unicode etc?
Thanks
Jack Russell
