Strange character transformations

[CyberSpyders]

Hi,

I have an ASP.Net website, which allows users to upload a file which is
then inserted into a database.

This is all fine until it reads a line with the string +Anu in it.
It transforms this to this char É» (which, if Googled for, is
described as Unicode Character 'LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH HOOK'
(U+027B) or, in Phonetics, as a 'Retroflex approximant'.)

Has anyone seen this behaviour before, and know how to stop it?
The code's simple - here's an example. The É» appears in the output
where the input is +Anu - it's transformed before I can touch it!

using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(strFile,
System.Text.Encoding.UTF7)) {
// Read and display lines from the file until the end of the file is
reached.
while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null) {
Response.Write(line);
}
}

Regards

Adam

 

[Guest]

Looks like an encoding issue, alright.
Have you tried using the StreamReader constructor that does not require a
character encoding?

 

[CyberSpy]

Graven,

I'm not sure how a 4 letter string like this could be seen as an
encoding issue, but I will certainly give it a go. Thanks for the
suggestion.

Adam

 

[CyberSpy]

Larry,

You were spot on - changing to UTF8 stopped this transformation. Thanks

It's not quite solved my problem though.
The file is a Text file, each line being a series of files delimited by
the ¦ character, as this was unliekley to ever appear in the actual
data.

Unfortunately, UTF8 encoding strips these characters completely. ASCII
encoding, on the other hand, replaces them with ?

Oh the joy of character encoding.

Regards

Adam