Read Swedish characters

Question

Hi I am reading a file using StreamReader but I am unable to read Swedish characters like ä å ö. How can I add this ability? Thank you

Vulpes · Answer

It sounds like the file may use a single byte encoding (possibly Windows 1252) rather than UTF-8 which I think is the default for StreamReader and should be able to represent the Swedish characters. See if it's any better if you specify an encoding in the constructor. Something like: StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(filePath System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252));