°C showing up as °C

[Nibbleman]

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.

[wossname]

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

[Nibbleman]

I'll post the whole code.

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;

[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.

[dynamic_sysop]

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

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;

[MrPolite]

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.

shut up you're wrong

listen to what dynamic_sysop said

[Nibbleman]

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