Reading from file errors...

Hi everybody..

This is the problem I have:

I have a .txt archive which contains lines for configuring labels, buttons, and other controls of my form. This archive is written in spanish and some letters have an accent. I can read wit no problem the line, but when I assign the value I get (string type) to the text property of the control, the accent letters did not appear at all. Now I tried configuring my regional settings, before I had English (USA) and I tried changing it to Spanish (Mexico) but the accent letters now appear as an " ".

In my VB6 app, this was no problem. Checking my .txt is saved with an ANSI encoding. So I guess changing the encoding to something else will work, but how to know whats the best type Or which is the one it will work

Thanks!

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Reading from file errors...

Andy_Paul

Sup everyone... my problem is resolved. I used UTF-8 encoding when declaring my streamreader and saved my file to UTF-8 encoding too and that was all =). Thanks everyone for guiding me on my problem. Just one extra question, what the difference between encodings I mean I guess some use som characters or something like that. But don't know for sure what the difference between them. Can anyone tell me

Thanks.
JP
Mitch0820

Sup Peter...

I know there are other ways to handle it and load the info.. but can't change the way the project was defined =S.. thats wack... I know.. so thats why I need to get it working properly the way it is right now.
Streetsmart
saving my .txt with unicode will help me display the text correctly or do I have to change encoding in my code also
Godwin Lang
1. save text file in Unicode
2. Dim textr As New StreamReader(oFS, System.Text.Encoding.Unicode)
Does it help
LICNYC
ASCII encoding was used in DOS, 1 byte per character (256 different chars)
ANSI encoding was used in Windows, 1 byte per char
Unicode encoding - modern encoding, 2 bytes per char (65536 different chars)

When using Unicode - you can store all characters from different languages in the same encoding.

When using ANSI/ASCII encodings same numbers can represent different letters, all depend on code page.
WarrenB

Sup Sergey...

Right now what I do is that I open the file (the .txt is saved as ANSI), declare a streamreader with no encoding defined all the lines in my file are defined as
an ID = Text... so when I read a line I get the index of the "=" and I get the right part and pass the value to my function output. And then in my form, I assign the value to the text property of my control in the form.. Heres part of the code...

Dim textr As New StreamReader(oFS)

Try

While textr.Peek <> -1

sTextLine = textr.ReadLine()

iPos = sTextLine.Length - 1

If sTextLine.IndexOf("=") > 0 Then

If sTextLine.Substring(0, sTextLine.IndexOf("=")).ToUpper = parParameterName Then

temp = sTextLine.Substring(sTextLine.IndexOf("=") + 1, (sTextLine.Length - 1) - sTextLine.IndexOf("="))

GetParameter = temp

Exit While

End If

End If

End While

.... return value

I tried reading with default system encoding but the accent letters are omitted.
Thanks S!
dcaton2

Thanks SG... I have a better idea of different encoding. =)
Mardo
Hi!

ANSI is bad for multilanguage text, use Unicode instead.

appears when letter can't be shown in current encoding.
mgaur
Why not store that information in a resource file and load the appropariate text via My
Rajesh_B
How you load text You must save & load in Unicode. Post this code here.
Reading from file errors...

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