Possible Encoding Issue Reading HTM File using .Net Streamreader
- by Brian Boatright
I have an HTML file with a ® (copyright) and ™ (trademark) symbol in the text. These are just two among many other symbols. When I read the html file into a literal control it converts the symbols to something else.
The copyright symbol converts to ? (open box in ff)
The trademark symbol converts to ™ (as expected)
If (System.IO.File.Exists(FullName)) Then
Dim StreamReader1 As New System.IO.StreamReader(FullName)
Contents.Text = StreamReader1.ReadToEnd()
StreamReader1.Close()
End If
Contents is a <asp:Literal runat="server" ID="Contents"></asp:Literal> and it's the only control in the aspx page.
From some research I think this is related to the encoding but I don't know why it would change how to fix it.
The html file does not contain any Content-Type settings in the head section.
