TextBox and odd chars

[Christer Claesson]

So, I've tried to do a simple little editor. Works nice with normal text and whatnot, but things like ascii art with its weird characters will not show. They show in notepad but even when I use the same font they refuse to show in the my TextField. Tried a RichTextBox, did not work any good either. So, any clues what I might do. Thank you

[Heath Stewart]

Where is this text coming from? Are you programmatically setting it, or is it just typed in?

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[Christer Claesson]

I'm opening a .nfo file or .txt file, so I'm reading it like this: StreamReader reader = File.OpenText(fileName); txbEdit.Clear(); txbEdit.Text = reader.ReadToEnd(); You think that is the thing that makes it weird? Thanks

[Heath Stewart]

First of all, make sure you call Close on your read when you're done. Second, File.OpenText opens files as UTF-8. Any characters above 127 tell the code to read multiple bytes of character data. Below 127 things look like ASCII. What you should do is just use a FileStream and specify the encoding as System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.

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