reading special characters from a text file RESOLVED

I have the following code which will read "normal" characters from any textfile just fine:

Code:

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          Dim oRead As StreamReader
            Dim oFile As File
            Dim currentLine As System.String
            oRead = oFile.OpenText(Global.directory)

            While oRead.Peek <> -1
                currentLine = oRead.ReadLine()
                If Not File.Exists(Global.homedirectory + "\teste.txt") Then
                    Dim oWrite As New System.IO.StreamWriter(Global.homedirectory + "\teste.txt")
                    oWrite.WriteLine(currentLine)
                    oWrite.Close()
                End If
                MessageBox.Show(currentLine)

            End While
            oRead.Close()

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But my problem is, that it does not read special characters.

My textfile contains: "ašššb" . But Readline() reads only "ab".

I thought UTF-8 supports foreign characters? But apparently, it does not.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanx,
Usul

i don't know much about this sort of thing, but have you tried using unicode instead? if you can... i'm not sure

just a thought, unicode might handle it

i tried a lot, using the encoding classes and reading byte per byte but i didnt manage to solve the problem.

it may have something to do with StreamReader or StreamWriter.

I would suggest using the other way... sorry, I don't know what you call it. I'll give you an example of what you need.

Use this to open the file you want to read

VB Code:

Dim strLine As String
FileOpen(1, strFilePath, OpenMode.Output)
strLine = LineInput(1)

That should read the line into the string strLine
Hopefully that will include the characters that are missing.
If you're trying to write strLine into a different file, and it doesnt work with StreamWriter, i suggest doing the same method but
PrintLine(1, strLine) instead, replacing 1 with the filenumber you got open.
Hope that helps, ask any questions if you're not sure

thanx, it works (after i altered your code a little). :)

but still it is strange that writeline("adfšššššš") works but readline cannot read it :mad:

hmm yeah, strange... glad it works tho