reading special characters.

[deepaks3]

Hi, I am reading the contents of a file and displaying it in a lable on a web page. There are also some special characters in the file such as : à é The problem is that these chars are converted to square blocks like this � in display. And this the the code i am using to read the file: FileStream file = new FileStream(FilePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read); // Create a new stream to read from a file StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(file); // Read contents of file into a string string s = sr.ReadToEnd(); // Close StreamReader sr.Close(); // Close file file.Close(); And this is the code whihc i am using to display the contents: lblStaticContent.Text = s.ToString(); Please help.

Deepak Surana

[Guffa]

A StreamReader by default uses the utf-8 encoding. If any other encoding was used when creating the file, you have to specify that encoding when you create the StreamReader.

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