[SOLVED] VB.net Read XML file with wrong encoding

VB.net Read XML file with wrong encoding

I've been looking for several hours now with no success!

I have a XML file (which a program creates) and I like to get information out of it. Now, my problem is, the header of the files sais UFTF-8, but the file is encoded in UNICODE! VB.net XmlTextReader won't read that file...!? As soon as it gets to "Load", it throws around with exceptions. Then I opened one of those thousands XML files in Notepad++ and saved it as UFT-8 - well, guess that! That file worked!

But I don't think I want to change all the files on our server (new ones are added daily!) and I don't think I can get the developer to change the way he saves those XML-files.

Any ideas on how to "cheat" VB.net into reading those files anyways?

Thanks!

Solution

You can change the encoding when you read the file into the memory

Dim Stream As New IO.StreamReader("File.xml", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)
Dim Reader As New Xml.XmlTextReader(Stream)

for a more advanced approach, you can first detect the encoding of the file and then try to change it.