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Radu
Radu

Reputation: 128

I can't use french characters

I m developing a c# hangman game for a competition.

I generate some words that have french characters and my vs2015 is not supporting them. For example when it generates "mûre" word instead of "û" there is displayed a "?".

I tried to go to Tools->Options->International Settings and there to download French language pack. I runned it and nothing happened. My displayed options there are only "English" and "Same as Microsoft Windows". ( I restarted my pc after installation);

Here is my function that generates the word:

private void generateRandomWord_Survival() { 
    Random rand;
    rand = new Random();

    if (!playSurvival) return;

    StreamReader filereader;
    int lineNumber = 0;
    filereader = new StreamReader(@"survival_easy.txt");

    if (survival_level == "easy") {
        filereader = new StreamReader(@"survival_easy.txt");
        lineNumber = File.ReadAllLines(@"survival_easy.txt").Length;
    } else if (survival_level == "medium") {
        filereader = new StreamReader(@"survival_medium.txt");
        lineNumber = File.ReadAllLines(@"survival_medium.txt").Length;
    } else if (survival_level == "hard") {
        filereader = new StreamReader(@"survival_hard.txt");
        lineNumber = File.ReadAllLines(@"survival_medium.txt").Length;
    }
    int line = rand.Next(1, lineNumber);
    string text = String.Empty;

    for (int i = 1; i <= line; i++) {
        text = filereader.ReadLine();
    }
    filereader.Close();
    word = text.ToCharArray();          
    initLabelSetup();
    initLabelSetup();
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1291

Answers (1)

raven
raven

Reputation: 2431

Try using a different encoding when you read the file.

File.ReadAllLines(@"survival_easy.txt", Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1"));

Upvotes: 1

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