reading special characters from a text file RESOLVED

[Usul]

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

           
           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()

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