I tried this aproach without any success
the code I'm using:
// File name
String filename = String.Format("{0:ddMMyyHHmm}", dtFileCreated);
String filePath = Path.Combine(Server.MapPath("App_Data"), filename + ".txt");
// Process
myObject pbs = new myObject();
pbs.GenerateFile();
// pbs.GeneratedFile is a StringBuilder object
// Save file
Encoding utf8WithoutBom = new UTF8Encoding(true);
TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(filePath, false, utf8WithoutBom);
foreach (string s in pbs.GeneratedFile.ToArray())
tw.WriteLine(s);
tw.Close();
// Push Generated File into Client
Response.Clear();
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.text";
Response.AppendHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + filename + ".txt");
Response.TransmitFile(filePath);
Response.End();
the result:
It's writing the BOM no matter what, and special chars (like Æ Ø Å)
are not correct :-/
I'm stuck!
My objective is create a file using UTF-8 as Encoding and 8859-1 as CharSet
Is this so hard to accomplish or I'm just getting a bad day?
All help is greatly appreciated, thank you!
Well it writes the BOM because you are instructing it to, in the line
Encoding utf8WithoutBom = new UTF8Encoding(true);
true
means that the BOM should be emitted, using
Encoding utf8WithoutBom = new UTF8Encoding(false);
writes no BOM.
My objective is create a file using UTF-8 as Encoding and 8859-1 as CharSet
Sadly, this is not possible, either you write UTF-8 or not. I.e. as long as the characters you are writing are present in ISO Latin-1 it will look like a ISO 8859-1 file, however as soon as you output a character that is not covered by ISO 8859-1 (e.g. ä,ö, ü) these characters will be written as a multibyte character.
To write true ISO-8859-1 use:
Encoding isoLatin1Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
Edit: After balexandre's comment
I used the following code for testing ...
var filePath = @"c:\temp\test.txt";
var sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append("dsfaskd jlsadfj laskjdflasjdf asdkfjalksjdf lkjdsfljas dddd jflasjdflkjasdlfkjasldfl asääääjdflkaslj d f");
Encoding isoLatin1Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(filePath, false, isoLatin1Encoding);
tw.WriteLine(sb.ToString());
tw.Close();
And the file looks perfectly well. Obviously, you should use the same encoding when reading the file.