I have a problem with converting a text file from ANSI to UTF8 in c#. I try to display the results in a browser.
So I have a this text file with many accent character in it. Its encoded in ANSI, so I have to convert it to utf8 because in the browser instead of the accentchars appearing "?". No matter how I tried to convert to UTF8 it was still a "?". But if I convert the text file in notepad++ to utf8 then the accent chars are desplayed good.
here is a peace of encoding code that I made:
public string Encode(string text)
{
// encode the string as an ASCII byte array
byte[] myASCIIBytes = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(text);
// convert the ASCII byte array to a UTF-8 byte array
byte[] myUTF8Bytes = ASCIIEncoding.Convert(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII, UTF8Encoding.UTF8, myASCIIBytes);
// reconstitute a string from the UTF-8 byte array
return UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetString(myUTF8Bytes);
}
Do you have any idea why is this happening?