How to read Cyrillic characters from a .txt file using C #

Question

I saw similar topics, but could not find a solution. My problem is that I have a .txt file in which the characters are in Bulgarian / which is Cyrillic /, but after trying to read them, there is no success. I tried to read this code:

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(fileName,Encoding.UTF8);

if (File.Exists(fileName))
{
    while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(line);
    }
}

And I also changed the Encoding value to everything possible, as I tried with GetEncoding (1251), which I wrote for the Cyrillic alphabet. And when I save the .txt file, I tried to save it with every different encoding that was there / UNICODE, UTF-8, BigEndianUnicode, ANSI / in every combination with the encoding that I set through the code, but again without success.

Any ideas on how to read Cyrillic characters in the right direction will be appreciated. And here is a sample text for this: "This is a sample text."

Thanks in advance!:)

Answer 1

Your problem is that the console cannot display Cyrillic characters. Try setting a breakpoint on Console.WriteLineand check the variable line. Clearly you need to know the correct encoding first! :-)

If you don't trust me, try this: create a console program that does this:

string line = "  "; 
Console.WriteLine(line);
return 0;

set a breakpoint on return 0;, look at the console and look at the string variable.

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Answer 2

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