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

[LITHIA]

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

[Usul]

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

[LITHIA]

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

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

[Usul]

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

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

[LITHIA]

hmm yeah, strange... glad it works tho