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Asked: 2026-05-10T21:37:51+00:00

I’ve used MS Word automation to save a .doc to a .htm. If there

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I’ve used MS Word automation to save a .doc to a .htm. If there are bullet characters in the .doc file, they are saved fine to the .htm, but when I try to read the .htm file into a string (so I can subsequently send to a database for ultimate storage as a string, not a blob), the bullets are converted to question marks or other characters depending on the encoding used to load into a string.

I’m using this to read the text:

string html = File.ReadAllText(myFileSpec);

I’ve also tried using StreamReader, but get the same results (maybe it’s used internally by File.ReadAllText).

I’ve also tried specifying every type of Encoding in the second overload of File.ReadAllText:

string html = File.ReadAllText(originalFile, Encoding.ASCII);

I’ve tried all the available enums for the Encoding type.

Any ideas?

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  1. On my system (using US-English) Word saves *.htm files in the Windows-1252 codepage. If your system uses that codepage, then that is what you should read it in as.

    string html = File.ReadAllText(originalFile, Encoding.GetEncoding(1252));

    It is also possible that whatever you are using the view the results may be creating the question marks for you, though, so be sure and check for that too.

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