I need to read files which contain diacritical characters -- i.e. the upper 128 or "extended" characters of the ASCII character set.
I'm enclosing an example here, but don't know if it will display properly:
"François Désiré, Fond des Nègres, St-Domingue, France"
I have a working app that uses StreamReader -- but it strips those characters out of the string. What I get is:
"Franois Dsir, Fond des Ngres, St-Domingue, France"
According to the VB .Net Help. the default encoding is UTF-8, so what gives? Why are the characters being dropped?
How do I get StreamReader to correctly read these characters?
Any help greatly appreciated.
thanks,
Tom Cloud
I'm enclosing an example here, but don't know if it will display properly:
"François Désiré, Fond des Nègres, St-Domingue, France"
I have a working app that uses StreamReader -- but it strips those characters out of the string. What I get is:
"Franois Dsir, Fond des Ngres, St-Domingue, France"
According to the VB .Net Help. the default encoding is UTF-8, so what gives? Why are the characters being dropped?
How do I get StreamReader to correctly read these characters?
Any help greatly appreciated.
thanks,
Tom Cloud