File read foreign characters

Question

I am trying to read foreign characters from a .ini file. This is the method I use.

[DllImport("kernel32")] public static extern int GetPrivateProfileString(string Section, int Key, string Value, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray)] byte[] Result, int Size, string FileName); public static string[] GetEntryNames(string section, string iniPath) { for (int maxsize = 500; true; maxsize *= 2) { byte[] bytes = new byte[maxsize]; int size = Imports.GetPrivateProfileString(section, 0, "", bytes, maxsize, iniPath); if (size < maxsize - 2) { string entries = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes, 0, size - (size > 0 ? 1 : 0)); Console.WriteLine("Entries: " + entries.Split(new char[] { '\0' })[3]); return entries.Split(new char[] { '\0' }); } } } 

I am using Encoding.ASCII , but obviously GetPrivateProfileString not. Bytes coming out of it need encoding. How can i do this?

Edit: Example

It will print: Tavar? instead of tavaré

Answer 1

To read text containing French accents, you usually want to use one of the following encodings:

• Encoding.UTF8
• Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1")
• Encoding.GetEncoding("windows-1252")

Edit: they worked for OP:

• Encoding.UTF7
• Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1")

Answer 2

Disclaimer: I have virtually no C # experience

It may be using Unicode, so try the following:

 Encoding.Unicode.GetString(bytes, 0, size - (size > 0 ? 1 : 0)); 

And this:

 Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes, 0, size - (size > 0 ? 1 : 0)); 

And this too:

 Encoding.UTF32.GetString(bytes, 0, size - (size > 0 ? 1 : 0));