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Marox
Marox

Reputation: 359

Encoding with iso-8859-2

My code is:

var previousLines = new HashSet<string>();
File.WriteAllLines("D:\\textfile2.txt", 
                   File.ReadLines("textfile1.txt").Where(line => previousLines.Add(line)),
                   Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-2"));

I have two text files. In textfile1.txt I have words with letters like ł,ą,ę etc. I want to rewrite all lines with no duplicates to the file textfile2.txt, but the encoding doesn't work as I expected. It eats some letters such as ł,ą,ę. Why is this happening?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5519

Answers (1)

cbr
cbr

Reputation: 13662

You need to use the same encoding you used to write textfile1.txt. By default, UTF-8 is used for reading in File.ReadLines.

If you've used ISO-8859-2 when you wrote it, you'll need to specify it:

File.ReadLines("textfile1.txt", Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-2"))

Upvotes: 2

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