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diegocaro
diegocaro

Reputation: 285

How to convert the encoding of an string to UTF-8 without know the original encoding in C#?

I'm reading a CSV file with Fast CSV Reader (on codeproject). When I print the content of the fields, the console show the character '?' in some words. How can fix it?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 481

Answers (1)

Rowland Shaw
Rowland Shaw

Reputation: 38130

The short version is that you have to know the encoding of any text file you're going to read up front. You could use things like byte order marks and other heuristics if you really aren't going to know, but you should always allow for the value to be tweaked (in the same way that Excel does if you're importing CSV).

It's also worth double checking the values in the debugger, as it may be that it is the output that is wrong, as opposed to the reading -- bear in mind that all strings are Unicode internally, and conversion to '?' sounds like it is failing converting the unicode to the relevant code page for the console.

Upvotes: 3

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