filestream character encoding ??

[Tomba]

hello all,

I hope you can help me out on this..

 

on a pc, I need to reed a file with charset "macintosh" , which is equal to Western European(Mac)

 

I read the file as follows:

 

fs = New FileStream(Importfile, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)

sr = New StreamReader(fs)

 

I just can't find how to set the charset to use for reading this file.

How should I do that, so that all letters with accents and stuff are read correctly

 

thanks a lot in advance!!

[JABE]

The StreamReader's constructor is overloaded to accept a second parameter of type Encoding. Perhaps you can specify:

 

sr = New StreamReader(fs, System.Text.Encoding.Unicode)

 

Hope this helps.

[divil]

One of the StreamReader constructor parameters takes a parameter of System.Text.Encoding, maybe that would help.

[Tomba]

well setting that to unicode gets me always

line = nothing

 

can't I specify the exact charset somehow :( :confused:

[PlausiblyDamp]

have you tried System.Text.Encoding.BigEndianUnicode as the encoding type?

[Tomba]

afraid so yes :(

all empty lines

 

when I choose UTF7 I get black blocks instead of é and à and stuff.

whe choosing ASCII all those special characters appear like question marks

 

damn vb.net can suck big time! :mad:

seems like no one knows it too :(

[Tomba]

heya people, found the solution!

 

the EncodingName of codepage 10000 returns "Western European (Mac)".

 

imports system.text

...

dim en as encoding

en = encoding.getencoding(10000)

...

sr = new streamreader(fs, en)

 

still, vb.net is overpowered :o

have fun with this if you would need it ;)