How to build a project with a different character encoding?

Question

I have source code with an encoding different then my system's default encoding for non-Unicode application.

For example my machine is default to Windows 1255, but the code I am trying to build is in Windows 1252 encoding.

Is there a way to set the MSbuild encoding to a specific encoding for a specific build?

This is a machine that does multiple build for files in multiple different encodings.

Answer 1

The C# compiler is fully unicode aware - what problems are you having specifically? It is generally fairly rare for actual source code to contain large amounts of non-ASCII anyway.

But I suspect the simplest thing in your case would be to change the files to UTF8... no more problem. It would be pretty easy to script loading it with a specific Encoding and then saving with Encoding.UTF8.