I used WriteAllText to set the encoding for a text file. When I wrote it, everything worked out fine. However, strange characters or symbols appeared in some ofm y fields without my having typed it. why is this so? The encoding I'm using is UTF8. I used the WriteAllText to write the fields to file but did not use the ReadAllText to bring the data back into the fields or program.
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Basically when I open test123.txt it should countain "Hello World" but not really, only " World" is there.
I am writing an application that must generate a plain Text file with fixed sized columns.my current code is:
Dim MyFilePath As String = Path & FILE_PREFIX & FileNr & ".TXT"
IO.File.Delete(MyFilePath)
Dim FileStr As New IO.StreamWriter(MyFilePath, False, <ENCODER HERE>)
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i would like to ask is there anyway to read a txt file with UTF-8 encoding using streamreader or filestream. the txt file is contain some extended ASCII that makes me cannot read the characters properly. I hav tried Encoding.ASCII.GetString(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes()) but still it return wrong character when it's reading extended ASCII code.
View 2 RepliesVB 2005 now offers different methods to write/read a file, such as the File.WriteAllText, the My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText and the StreamWriter.Can anybody explain when is it better to use which method, which one is more efficient in term of memory/processor use and performance time?
View 7 RepliesI am sending a DDE message to a client using System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(item) . However, before the message is actually sent, I would like to get the message coded where if the item="Ask" then item=Ask (string variable) and so on. The code is:
Protected Overrides Function OnRequest(ByVal conversation As DdeConversation, ByVal item As String, ByVal format As Integer) As RequestResult
' Return data to the client only if the format is CF_TEXT
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Basically I am saving text to 2 seperate ini files, also saving the checkbox.checked value so my form can skip the login and auto start. My only problem is when a user saves the information to the INI files after writing them they automatically open up the INI files for display. When the form loads it automatically fills in the fields and if the checkbox is active it checks all the correct details then starts, only problem is it loads the checkbox1.checked ini file then starts the main menu. How can I skip this? and make it not show the ini files everytime they are called upon?
Dim aINIpath As String
aINIpath = "User.ini"
If File.Exists(aINIpath) = False Then
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I have done very little with encoding of Text. Truthfully, I don't really even know what it means exactly.
For example, if I have something like:
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Is that 'encoded' in memory in a particular format? Does that format depend on what language I'm using?
If I were in another country, like China, for example, and I had a string of Chinese (mandarin? My apologies if I'm using the wrong words here) would the following code (that I've used fine on English strings) still work the same?
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Or would it lose all meaning when you convert that .Net string to a UTF8Encoding when that conversion isn't valid?
Finally, I've worked with .Net for a few years now and I've never seen, heard, or had to do anything with Encoding. Am I the exception, or is it not a common thing to do?
I have an ASP.Net app that allows a user to write text into a Telerik RadEditor control and then send an email.For some reason I'm sometimes getting strange characters showing up in the email that is generated.se if I use the later, the text would show up just fine. If I pull up the saved record within the ASP.Net apps interface it looks just fine. It also appears just fine when I view the text within the recorded of the MS SQL table it was stored in. Continued--->I have tried to add it to the constructor of my email class with/without mybase but that had no effect.
Public Sub New(ByVal EmailDate As DateTime, ByVal LogoPath As String)
MyBase.New()
MyBase.BodyEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1")
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I am creating xml files that contain chinese posts and it seemed to be working but I started getting an error:
This page contains the following errors:
error on line 4165 at column 25: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0x0B 0xC3 0xA5 0xC2 Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
When trying to open some of the resulting files.The line it references contains chinese characters and this occurs only in some situations and my guess is that the text is sometimes containing some characters that throw it off. How can I ensure that the text for that field will always be properly encoded? I don't even understand why the issue yet.
Public Shared xwriter As XmlTextWriter = New XmlTextWriter(xmlfile, Encoding.UTF8)
I make sure the xmltextwriter is properly declared.
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The issue is that I use vb.net and apparantly it encodes everything in utf-16 so I assume this is fine. The problem is that the text I am receiving is probably double encoded or incorrectly encoded and I need to clean it before using it; so that my xml is valid.
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so if I need to fix my data, my question is how can I detect what encoding is used for a specific text and how do I convert into utf8 format that can be viewed in an xml file and make the file valid.
I can't use System.Text.Encoding, I get this error when trying to use it:
A first chance exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in WindowsApplication3.exe
A first chance exception of type 'System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
this is the
Private _TextEncoding As System.Text.Encoding
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim _DownloadedBytes() As Byte = _TextEncoding.GetBytes("teststste")
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and then it exit function.
I recently worked on a small-scale EPP Client, which is a communications protocol over TCP/IP using XML packets to exchange commands and responses. The server I'm working with specifically is employing SSL so the code contains references to an SSLStream certificates and passphrases - please don't ask me to post more code than I provide here.We're building the XML EPP Commands in raw System.Strings, then using System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes on the string to populate a Byte Array, then writing the Byte Array into the SSLStream. The server would communicate, negotiate certificates, and
View 10 RepliesI have a VB2010 project where I need to read a tab delimited 50MB file using Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.TextFieldParser. This technique works fine until the reader encounters a Unicode character upon which it inserts the little square thingy. The obvious choice is to change the encoding of the reader to Unicode from the default. This would probably work fine but for most files but this one is fairly large and I get the error TextFieldParser is unable to complete the read operation because maximum buffer size has been exceeded. By the way this file can be read completely without the Unicode option. Making the file smaller or breaking it up really isn't an option. Is is possible to increase the buffer size or is there another way to read this data that places the data in fields like the textparser and allows unicode characters?
View 9 Repliesi have a task to create ,read,update xml file this file have encoding UTF-16. when i create using vb.net ,i am using xmltextwriter. i cannot find encoding UTF-16. it is only have UTF8,UTF7,UTF32. that's don't have UTF16.that's anyone have clue or link to guide me create,read,update file xml with encoding UTF-16??
Imports System.Xml
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim writer As New XmlTextWriter("product.xml", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)
writer.WriteStartDocument(True)
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I have a problem with combobox. I set the DrawMode into OwnerDrawVariable so I can draw items seperately with styles, but the characters of the items are now displaying blocks. The block characters are none ASCII. It used to display well but not now and I don't know what caused it to happen. I didn't change my system locale. At the same time, other combobox that have Normal DrawMode displays nicely fine.
My custom drawing code:
e.Graphics.DrawString(combo.Items(e.Index), combo.Font, b2, rect.X, rect.Y)
I'm using us-English Windows XP system. I want to write a programe to creat a file which encoding is GB2312. I try many ways to perform it,but all failed. All the encoding of the files I created is Western European(Windows). The simply code I paste here:
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I'm having problems decoding a file with "ISO-8859-1" encoding.For example, I can't decode "%E7" to "ç".
View 1 RepliesI have a problem with the encoding of characters when I try to open an excel file....Let's say that the excel file has the following text:
Greek | English | German
a,? .. | a,b,c,... | a,b,c...¶
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I am trying to get my program to write a .bat file to run, it writes the file fine but the file wont run properly as it needs to be encoded with ANSI but i don't know how to set it to write that. The code for this part so far:
Private Sub start_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles start.Click
If My.Computer.FileSystem.FileExists(".
un
un.bat") Then
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I have a long UTF8 encoded text string. The actual values stored in the string are hexadecimal. I want to convert the encoding and save to a binary file.
Is there a simple encoding.convert or other method to do this with?
Basically the output is twice as large as it needs to be right now. The long way of doing it would be a routine to go through the string two characters at a time and convert to byte array and then .writeallbytes I guess. It seems there must be a simpler way of converting this?
Is there any way i could take a music file, like a radio playlist (pls) and encode it into my application?
View 6 RepliesI am getting one problem with xml file after generation. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> some junk characters are coming before <?xml.... tag like above. its happening when i mentioned encoding attribute. here below is my code to set the encoding type.
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My questions isn't really about a programming language but, since I did not find a general programming forum, I chose this one as I know VB.Net. There's this game, that you might already know, which is called Star Wars Galaxies (And is ending soon actually .. ). For each account and character, the game automatically saves chat logs in a .cht file. A player can have multiple chat channels that have different chat filters (group chat, public chat, etc) and they are all saved in this file. I'm thinking they are probably separated by some kind of a "flag" for the game to be able to detect them.
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Okay so all i want to do, is to write something in a richtextbox then saving the text, as a .txt file, with ANSI encoding.
The title says to open and edit aswell, but i dont need thatm ingore that.
This is the code i have atm:
Save button:
Dim SaveFile As New SaveFileDialog
SaveFile.FileName = ""
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I have been working on a project that opens, modifies, then saves an xml file. The problem is that one of the attribute values contains a dash, causing the parser to throw an error when my xml editor application attempts to open the file. I have yet to find a working solution after weeks of searching the web, I tried the the following method for saving the xml file[code]...
View 2 RepliesHow could i read a string into a binary file Encoding.UTF8.(the string has a length of 25 bytes)
Using fs As New FileStream (OpenFileDialog1.FileName, FileMode.Open)
fs.Position = 2096
Using br As New BinaryReader (fs)
For x As Int16 = 2 To 25
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if we don't mention the decoding what decoding will they use?I do not think it's System.Text.Encoding.Default. Things work well if I EXPLICITLY put System.Text.Encoding.Default but things go wrong when I live that empty.So this doesn't work well
Dim b = System.IO.File.ReadAllText("test.txt")
System.IO.File.WriteAllText("test4.txt", b)
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I have a problem when writing some text to txt files.Here is my My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText("test.txt", tekst, False)where tekst is a string variable.
When opened in some HEX editor, test.txt begins with 3 unwanted characters - ASCII values: EF BB BF. Notepad isn't showing them.
I'm using the My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText function to write to a file in a VBA macro for an Access database, but when I try to run the macro, it highlights the "My" in My.Computer and gives me an error saying variable not defined.
View 1 RepliesI just need to know what is the slight difference between them so I know which one to use everytime.
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