encoding change from ANSI to UTF8

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I need to open a txt file in my code, but this file is in ANSI (windows 1255) encoding, and convert it to UTF-8. How can I do that?

Posted 14-Jan-12 12:32pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Jan-12 4:16am

What's the problem, MSDN hates you or Google banned you?
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-14T22:15:00

Let's do it quickly: read it with

C#

System.IO.StreamReader reader =
    new System.IO.StreamReader(fileName, System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII, false);

write with

C#

System.IO.StreamWriter writer =
    new System.IO.StreamWriter(fileName, false, System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8);

—SA

Posted 14-Jan-12 22:15pm

Updated 15-Jan-12 5:52am

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Richard MacCutchan 15-Jan-12 10:26am

Just what I needed, have a 5.

Bahare Aghabarari 17-Feb-13 3:07am

Thanks very much*