Reading file text "as is"

Question

I'm reading text from a file with the following code: System.IO.FileStream oReadStream = new System.IO.FileStream(sFile System.IO.FileMode.Open System.IO.FileAccess.Read); System.IO.StreamReader oReader = new System.IO.StreamReader(oReadStream System.Text.Encoding.ASCII); this.txtMyTextbox.Text = oReader.ReadToEnd(); The problem is that special character strings such as: x² or 90° are read as x? and 90?. If I change System.Text.Encoding.ASCII to System.Text.Encoding.UTF7 these two get read correctly but other standard xml strings don't. Is there a way to read the file contents exactly as is? i.e. the same as if I copied the file contents via the clipboard directly into the textbox? (this works fine)

pseudobill2004 · Answer

I found a solutions to this problem: Replacing System.Text.Encoding.ASCII with System.Text.Encoding.Default did the job. Interestingly using the overloaded version of the StreamReader constructor with just the first parameter did not work - this is supposed to default to the System.Text.Encoding.Default setting but it doesn't...