Re: File.CreateText

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Thus wrote Jon,

Hello all,

I'm creating a file with the extension mai and the file contents are
in Japanese (シャーのエア抜き). Now the code works and creates the file, but
when I open it in Wordpad, the japanese text has become
シャーのエア抜き.

Why is this and can anyone help?

It seems WordPad only recognizes UTF-8 encoded text when the file includes a byte order mark (BOM). File.CreateText() creates UTF-8 encoded files without a BOM.

Therefore, instead of
StreamWriter writer = File.CreateText("file.txt"); use
StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter("file.txt", false, Encoding.UTF8);
to create your StreamWriter.

Cheers,
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Joerg Jooss
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