Unicode Character Issue

Re: Unicode Character Issue

Hello -

There is an overloaded constructor that takes an Encoding (e.g.
System.Text.Uni codeEncoding). Visual Basic treats all strings as
Unicode so if you do a ReadLine() to a String it should work.

Joe



On Jun 4, 12:04 pm, "Samuel" <samuel.shul... @ntlworld.comwr ote:

Re: Unicode Character Issue

Hello -

There is an overloaded constructor that takes an Encoding (e.g.
System.Text.Uni codeEncoding). Visual Basic treats its String as
Unicode so you should be find if you use ReadLine().

Joe



On Jun 4, 12:04 pm, "Samuel" <samuel.shul... @ntlworld.comwr ote:

Re: Unicode Character Issue


Here is a small, working example. Disregard
the ReadBinary stuff. That was just something
from another project and could be written
smaller/cleaner/etc.

Regards,

Joergen Bech

---snip---

Option Explicit On
Option Strict On

Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
Imports System

Public Class Form1

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVa l sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArg s) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim ansi() As Byte = ReadBinary("d:\ ansi.txt")
Dim s As String =
Encoding.GetEnc oding("iso-8859-1").GetString(a nsi)
TextBox1.Text = s

' Dim sb As New StringBuilder
' For Each b As Byte In ansi
' sb.Append(Chr(b ))
' Next
' TextBox1.Text = sb.ToString
End Sub

Public Shared Function ReadBinary(ByVa l file As String) As Byte()
Dim errorInformatio n As String = String.Empty
Dim result As Byte() = ReadBinary(file , errorInformatio n)
If String.IsNullOr Empty(errorInfo rmation) Then
Return result
Else
Throw New IOException(err orInformation)
End If
End Function

Public Shared Function ReadBinary(ByVa l file As String, _
ByRef errorInformatio n As
String) As Byte()

Try
Dim fInfo As New FileInfo(file)
Dim numBytes As Long = fInfo.Length
Dim fStream As New FileStream(file , FileMode.Open,
FileAccess.Read )
Dim br As New BinaryReader(fS tream)
Dim data() As Byte = br.ReadBytes(CI nt(numBytes))

br.Close()
fStream.Close()

Return data

Catch ex As Exception
errorInformatio n = ex.Message
Return Nothing

End Try

End Function



On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 17:04:48 +0100, "Samuel"
<samuel.shulman @ntlworld.comwr ote:

Re: Unicode Character Issue

Unicode didn't work but 'Default' did

Thank you,
Samuel


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Hello -

There is an overloaded constructor that takes an Encoding (e.g.
System.Text.Uni codeEncoding). Visual Basic treats all strings as
Unicode so if you do a ReadLine() to a String it should work.

Joe



On Jun 4, 12:04 pm, "Samuel" <samuel.shul... @ntlworld.comwr ote:

Re: Unicode Character Issue

Samuel,

Are you sure that the program that is showing you the characters is able to
read and show those characters.

You would not be the first to make the wrong conclussion because of this.

By instance Windows mail (Outlook Express) will not show these characters
as it is not send in HTML format.

Cor

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Re: Unicode Character Issue

Certainly, because when I save the same document in Unicode format I can
read it without any problem

Thank you,
Samuel


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Re: Unicode Character Issue

Samuel,

By the way what do you mean with Ansi format.

Wikipedia does not know it.

Cor

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Re: Unicode Character Issue

Open notepad and look in the list of the Encoding - did I have to say
encoding

Regards,
Samuel


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Re: Unicode Character Issue


In the context of the original post, Wikipedia does indeed have a few
articles describing the codes:



Regards,

Joergen Bech



On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 19:16:23 +0200, "Cor Ligthert[MVP]"
<notmyfirstname @planet.nlwrote :

Re: Unicode Character Issue

Samuel,

There is often spoken about ANSI when is meant the code table for
characters, but ANSI does give as much information as when you ask for about
a problem with a car and tell that it is an European brand.

The used bit format, or tell that you are using a code table, or even ASCII
although most people are then in fact talking about extended ASCII which is
for English and Dutch code table 437 gives much more information. While
using true ASCII which only has 7 bits characters (in fact 26 alphabetic
ones in upper and lower case).

As you are encoding between those, it will always take the characters as are
in the resulting code.

Cor

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