Pound sign (£) not displaying correctly 1

[jonnyknowsbest]

I have written a small app that outputs from a richtextbox to a text file. It all works fine, apart from when i want to output the british pound sign (£). When i try to view this text file, the pound sign is preceded by a capital A with a caret above it.

If i look at the file in hex, the pound sign is C2 A3, but if i create a text file in Notepad, the pound sign is just A3.

Where is the C2 coming from and how do i stop it?

 

[chiph]

The file is being output in UTF-8 unicode. Use the GetEncoding method on the Encoding class to get an Encoding object for Windows-1252 code page, and pipe your output through it.

Dim enc as Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("windows-1252")
Dim ub as Byte() = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(yoursourceString)
Dim wb as Byte() = Encoding.Convert(Encoding.Unicode, enc, ub)
yourfileStream.Write(wb, 0, wb.Length)

Chip H.

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[jonnyknowsbest]

yep, that;s done it

many thanks