Hi,
The problem i am having is that i have to process CSV files into the database. My CSV files are in ASCII format as provided by customer. These files can contain german characters so therefor i need to save these in unicode format so that i can read them and update in SQLServer.
Currently what i do is that i open the CSV file and save it in Unicode format manually and all processing is done alright. What i have to do is to write an application which will process these files automatically. So want the saving to be done by the application.
I am using C#.Net as my programming language.
I have searched the web and different forums for this. The solution that most of the forums have provided is to use StreamReader and StreamWriter classes and use Encoding.unicode or Encoding.UTF-8. The file is saved alright but german characters are still not been converted to unicode.
I have tried almost all ways i found on internet for this purpose to try saving file in unicode but havent succeeded yet.
Will any body tell me that what mistake i am making that german characters are not been converted to unicode.
Thanks

The ASCII standard only contains 128 characters, therefore what you are calling an 'ASCII' file is not. You are probably referring to ISO 8859-1 (commonly known as 'Latin-1') which contains all the latin characters required to write the german language.

The thing is, unicode is a superset of both ASCII and ISO 8859-1, so in theory a valid ASCII file is also a valid unicode (UTF-8) file.

UTF-16 and UTF-32 are different in the way they represent their characters, so would not be valid ASCII documents.

Without seeing the files in question it is hard to make any further comments.

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Thanks Sam for reply. I have that problem solved. I had no problem in saving the file. File was saved alright. Problem was when i was reading the file. When reading i was using System.IO.File.ReadAllText method. There it was problem. I specified Encoding.Default when reading the file and it succeded.