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Asked: 2026-05-11T10:54:27+00:00

I’m using the StreamReader class in .NET like this: using( StreamReader reader = new

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I’m using the StreamReader class in .NET like this:

using( StreamReader reader = new StreamReader( 'c:\somefile.html', true ) {     string filetext = reader.ReadToEnd(); }

This works fine when the file has a BOM. I ran into trouble with a file with no BOM .. basically I got gibberish. When I specified Encoding.Unicode it worked fine, eg:

using( StreamReader reader = new StreamReader( 'c:\somefile.html', Encoding.Unicode, false ) {     string filetext = reader.ReadToEnd(); }

So, I need to get the file contents into a string. So how do people usually handle this? I know there’s no solution that will work 100% of the time, but I’d like to improve my odds .. there is obviously software out there that tries to guess (eg, notepad, browsers, etc). Is there a method in the .NET framework that will guess for me? Does anyone have some code they’d like to share?

More background: This question is pretty much the same as mine, but I’m in .NET land. That question led me to a blog listing various encoding detection libraries, but none are in .NET

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