Convert string

[RonQ]

Hello to everyone!!
Im new to this forum and is my first day with .NET...

Im making an aplication to read a file, its a binary file with some text is spanish, so it has some tildes and

 

[HJB417]

If you know the codepage, I would use this .
ASCII will only display properly up until 127.

 

[RonQ]

How can i get the code page??
it isnt in the file im using, and also i think is a standart windows codepage, because for example the nfo files that uses the "bad boys", cant be read as well.

 

[HJB417]

can you post the nfo file?
Did you try using the other methods like Encoding.Unicode, Encoding.UTF7 or Encoding.UTF8?

 

[RonQ]

It isnt an NFO file is a dat file from a palm program, it isnt unicode. I think it is this encoding "Windows operating system (windows-1252)", im going to try this.
Any more help is welcome.

Bye,
Ronq.

 

[RonQ]

It was easyer than i tought i read the entire encoding namespace help to know that the Default encoding would work fine.

The string is "a