Question

I’m using the following code to read the contents of the text file. The file is encoded in some sort of Utf8 format:

String File = "ms-appx:///Arabic/file.txt";
contents = await Windows.Storage.PathIO.ReadTextAsync(File, Windows.Storage.Streams.UnicodeEncoding.Utf8); 

But the above gives me the error:

WinRT information: No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page.

Any ideas what I’m doing wrong here?

Thanks

Answer 1

I had a similar issue trying to read text files that contained certain characters (’, °, –) in a file that was using “Western European (Windows) – Codepage 1252” encoding.

The solution in my case was to force Visual Studio to save the files using UTF-8 encoding.

1. Open the file in Visual Studio
2. File > Advanced Save Options… >
3. Change the encoding to “Unicode (UTF-8 with signature) – Codepage 65001”
4. Save the file