Question

I want to write out a text file.

Instead of the default UTF-8, I want to write it encoded as ISO-8859-1 which is code page 28591. I have no idea how to do this…

I’m writing out my file with the following very simple code:

using (StreamWriter sw = File.CreateText(myfilename)) {     sw.WriteLine('my text...');     sw.Close(); } 

Answer 1

using System.IO; using System.Text;  using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(File.Open(myfilename, FileMode.Create), Encoding.WhateverYouWant)) {         sw.WriteLine('my text...');      } 

An alternate way of getting your encoding:

using System.IO; using System.Text;  using (var sw  = new StreamWriter(File.Open(@'c:\myfile.txt', FileMode.CreateNew), Encoding.GetEncoding('iso-8859-1'))) {     sw.WriteLine('my text...');              } 

Check out the docs for the StreamWriter constructor.