I do not use notepad because if you type "this app can break" and save it and open it, the characters show as squares in a 32 bit system :) So their character encoding detection seems to be faulty :)
The data from the web service is being inserted into Excel, so that is where I am viewing the data. But the data is also printed in the console in debug mode and written to a file as well.
I did see this post here,...
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When I set the reader to UTF8 then the à characters turn into �Leave a comment:
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StreamReader(), System.Text.Encoding and German character Ä.
I am consuming data from a web service, and the data is going through a soap extension. Currently it has TextReader reader = new StreamReader(fr om) where from is a Stream. This works great for most values, but when I reach a à characters it shows as a question mark. I updated to StreamReader(fr om, System.Text.Enc oding.Default) and now the à shows correctly, but characters such as Japanese or Chinese or Unicode do not show correctly.
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