I want to write out a text file.
Instead of the default UTF-8, I want to write it encoded as ISO-8859-1 which is code page 28591. I have no idea how to do this...
I'm writing out my file with the following very simple code:
using (StreamWriter sw = File.CreateText(myfilename))
{
sw.WriteLine("my text...");
sw.Close();
}
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(File.Open(myfilename, FileMode.Create), Encoding.WhateverYouWant))
{
sw.WriteLine("my text...");
}
An alternate way of getting your encoding:
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using (var sw = new StreamWriter(File.Open(@"c:\myfile.txt", FileMode.CreateNew), Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1"))) {
sw.WriteLine("my text...");
}
Check out the docs for the StreamWriter constructor.
You can have something like this
switch (EncodingFormat.Trim().ToLower())
{
case "utf-8":
File.WriteAllBytes(fileName, ASCIIEncoding.Convert(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII, new UTF8Encoding(false), convertToCSV(result, fileName)));
break;
case "utf-8+bom":
File.WriteAllBytes(fileName, ASCIIEncoding.Convert(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII, new UTF8Encoding(true), convertToCSV(result, fileName)));
break;
case "ISO-8859-1":
File.WriteAllBytes(fileName, ASCIIEncoding.Convert(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII, Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1"), convertToCSV(result, fileName)));
break;
case ..............
}
Change the Encoding of the stream writer. It's a property.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.streamwriter.encoding.aspx
So:
sw.Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding(28591);
Prior to writing to the stream.