"a52" <wabnel (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Hello.

I have a problem working with file with VB.NET.
I consurting a DataBase, de Data have special caracters (ñ,
Ñ, etc). When I try to save the file as ASCII File this
characters changed by others.

<snip>
Only the UTF8 file have the data fine, the ASCII changed
don't now why. How can I Make a ASCII file with fine data?

please help me.

Checking the help in Visual Studio .NET, under the Encoding class, there is
an example of converting from Unicode to ASCII. The supplied code may help
you.

[Visual Basic]
Imports System
Imports System.Text

Namespace Convert_Example
Class MyConvertExampleClass
Shared Sub Main()
Dim unicodeString As String = "This string contains the unicode
character Pi(Ð)"

' Create two different encodings.
Dim ascii As Encoding = Encoding.ASCII
Dim [unicode] As Encoding = Encoding.Unicode

' Convert the string into a byte[].
Dim unicodeBytes As Byte() = [unicode].GetBytes(unicodeString)

' Perform the conversion from one encoding to the other.
Dim asciiBytes As Byte() = Encoding.Convert([unicode], ascii,
unicodeBytes)

' Convert the new byte[] into a char[] and then into a string.
' This is a slightly different approach to converting to
illustrate
' the use of GetCharCount/GetChars.
Dim asciiChars(ascii.GetCharCount(asciiBytes, 0,
asciiBytes.Length)) As Char
ascii.GetChars(asciiBytes, 0, asciiBytes.Length, asciiChars, 0)
Dim asciiString As New String(asciiChars)

' Display the strings created before and after the conversion.
Console.WriteLine("Original string: {0}", unicodeString)
Console.WriteLine("Ascii converted string: {0}", asciiString)
End Sub
End Class
End Namespace

Of course, if your source contains characters that are not in the ASCII
character set, a "fine" conversion is not possible.
I recommend that you read the help article on the Encoding class, especially
the parts on what characters can be converted.


--
Peter [MVP Academic]

I did that.

I found the solutions saving the file with
FileSystemObject.


greeting peter.