Question

If I read a textfile using FileIO.ReadTextAsync, ReadLinesAsync or a DataReader, I can only specify a member of the UnicodeEncoding enum for the encoding. This includes for some reason only Utf8, Utf16BE and Utf16LE. How can I read a text file with another encoding (like Windows-1252 or even regular Unicode (with 2 Bytes for all characters)) then?

This may be important if Windows Store Apps share text files with Desktop applications or read text files from the internet.

Answer 1

Hans’ comment actually gave the answer to my question. Sample for Windows-1252:

string filePath = ...
StorageFile file = await StorageFile.GetFileFromPathAsync(filePath);
IBuffer buffer = await FileIO.ReadBufferAsync(file);
byte[] fileData = buffer.ToArray();
Encoding encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("Windows-1252");
string text = encoding.GetString(fileData, 0, fileData.Length);