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Asked: 2026-05-11T09:06:57+00:00

I’m using the code below to read a text file that contains foreign characters,

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I’m using the code below to read a text file that contains foreign characters, the file is encoded ANSI and looks fine in notepad. The code below doesn’t work, when the file values are read and shown in the datagrid the characters appear as squares, could there be another problem elsewhere?

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(inputFilePath, System.Text.Encoding.ANSI); using (reader = File.OpenText(inputFilePath))

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Update 1: I have tried all encodings found under System.Text.Encoding. and all fail to show the file correctly.

Update 2: I’ve changed the file encoding (resaved the file) to unicode and used System.Text.Encoding.Unicode and it worked just fine. So why did notepad read it correctly? And why didn’t System.Text.Encoding.Unicode read the ANSI file?

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  1. Yes, it could be with the actual encoding of the file, probably unicode. Try UTF-8 as that is the most common form of unicode encoding. Otherwise if the file ASCII then standard ASCII encoding should work.

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