°C showing up as °C

I've written a program to read an rss feed for the weather and save the temperature into a text file, but when i view the text file in notepad it looks great eg. 14°C but when i view it under MS Word or Word Pad its coming up as 14°C.

Any ideas how to get rid of that  ?

If i need to post the code let me know, or if need any more info.

Thanks.

Show the line of code that is responsible for adding the degrees character.

I'll post the whole code.

Code:

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System.Xml.XmlDocument xml = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();

                        xml.Load("http://www.wunderground.com/auto/rss_full/global/stations/94821.xml");

                        System.Xml.XmlNode weather = xml.SelectSingleNode("/rss/channel/item/description");

                        string tempF = null;
                        string tempC = null;

                        if (weather != null)
                        {
                                string[] tokens = weather.InnerText.Split(" ".ToCharArray());
   
                                tempF = tokens[1];
                                tempC = tokens[3];
                        }

                        Console.WriteLine("Temperature F: " + tempF);
                        Console.WriteLine("Temperature C: " + tempC);
                        System.IO.StreamWriter sw = new System.IO.StreamWriter(@"c:\weather.txt", false);
                        sw.WriteLine(tempC);
                        sw.Close();
                        sw = null;

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So basically you are fetching the "°C" directly from the website's data stream.

Since "°" is a special character its likely that the "Â" is a prefix that identifies it as such. All you need to do is strip out the "Â" OR manually insert "°C" yourself.

Thre are numerous string functions available to handle this.

just specify System.Text.Encoding.UTF8 in your StreamWriter. eg:

VB Code:

System.IO.StreamWriter sw = new System.IO.StreamWriter(@"c:\weather.txt", false,[B]System.Text.Encoding.UTF8[/B]);
    sw.WriteLine(tempC);
    sw.Close();
    sw = null;

Quote:

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Originally Posted by wossname

So basically you are fetching the "°C" directly from the website's data stream.

Since "°" is a special character its likely that the "Â" is a prefix that identifies it as such. All you need to do is strip out the "Â" OR manually insert "°C" yourself.

Thre are numerous string functions available to handle this.

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shut up you're wrong:D

listen to what dynamic_sysop said

thanks for this, i'll give it ago soon!