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Rachid
Rachid

Reputation: 403

Convert unknown encoding into utf-8

I'm using a json service returning strings written in French containing accents. The things is I don't receive them correctly as the accents are replaced by symbols 'é' => '?'

I'm guessing the problem is the encoding but i tried to convert the string into every single encoding into utf8

      var allTheEncoding = Encoding.GetEncodings();
      foreach (var encodingInfo in encoding)
      {
          var decoByte = encodingInfo.GetEncoding().GetBytes(str);
          var utf8Bytes = Encoding.Convert(encodingInfo.GetEncoding(), utf8, decoByte);
          str = utf8.GetString(utf8Bytes);
      }

And I still got the same probleme Am I doing it right ? What should I do??

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2263

Answers (1)

Jon Hanna
Jon Hanna

Reputation: 113272

You're shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.

Don't work on str, work on the original stream that became str, since it was when str was created that the error crept in.

Upvotes: 1

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