Re: Encoding.Default and Encoding.UTF8

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From: Hardy Wang (hardy_wang_at_marketrend.com)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:18:39 -0400

Thanks,
Anybody knows are there any characters in French and Spanish greater than
128 ASCII code? 

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"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@pobox.com> wrote in message
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> Hardy Wang <hardy_wang@marketrend.com> wrote:
> > I have following code:
> > Encoding mode; // Encoding.Default or Encoding.UTF8
> > FileStream sb = new FileStream(fullPathAndFileName, FileMode.Create);
> > StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(sb, mode);
> > sw.Write(textContent);
> > sw.Close();
> >
> > My question is under what situation, the saved files are different by
> > calling Encoding.Default and Encoding.UTF8.
>
> They'll almost certainly be different for any string containing non-
> ASCII characters. They're likely to be the same for any string
> containing solely ASCII characters.
>
> See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/unicode.html for more
> information.
>
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