Hi , all
I'm trying to write unicode to a file for another app (not developed with
vs2003) to read it. I used StreamWriter with unicode encoding.but I was
surprised that the streamwriter adds FFFE to the start of the file,which
stopes the other app from reading it!!
any idea how to stope it frome doing that,do I have to use another class
#####writer that supports unicode?

help me Please!
Thanks
majed
I did some code with diferent encoding and here is the result:
UTF7                             48656C6C6F2B4143454149512D0D0A
Hello+ACEAIQ-..
DEFAULT                      48656C6C6F21210D0A
Hello!!..
ASCII                             48656C6C6F21210D0A
Hello!!..
BIGENDIANUNICODE  FEFF00480065006C006C006F00210021000D000A
...H.e.l.l.o.!.!....
UNICODE                      FFFE480065006C006C006F00210021000D000A00
..H.e.l.l.o.!.!.....
UTF8                              EFBBBF48656C6C6F21210D0A
...Hello!!..

and here is the code

Imports System

Imports System.Text

Imports System.IO

Class filestream

Public Shared Sub main()

Dim ASCIIStream As New StreamWriter("ASCIIStream.txt", False,
System.Text.Encoding.ASCII)

Dim BigEndianUnicodeStream As New StreamWriter("BigEndianUnicodeStream.txt",
False, System.Text.Encoding.BigEndianUnicode)

Dim UnicodeStream As New StreamWriter("UnicodeStream.txt", False,
System.Text.Encoding.Unicode)

Dim DefaultStream As New StreamWriter("DefaultStream.txt", False,
System.Text.Encoding.Default)

Dim UTF7Stream As New StreamWriter("UTF7Stream.txt", False,
System.Text.Encoding.UTF7)

Dim UTF8Stream As New StreamWriter("UTF8Stream.txt", False,
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)

ASCIIStream.WriteLine("Hello!!")

ASCIIStream.Close()

ASCIIStream = Nothing

BigEndianUnicodeStream.WriteLine("Hello!!")

BigEndianUnicodeStream.Close()

BigEndianUnicodeStream = Nothing

UnicodeStream.WriteLine("Hello!!")

UnicodeStream.Close()

UnicodeStream = Nothing

DefaultStream.WriteLine("Hello!!")

DefaultStream.Close()

DefaultStream = Nothing

UTF7Stream.WriteLine("Hello!!")

UTF7Stream.Close()

UTF7Stream = Nothing

UTF8Stream.WriteLine("Hello!!")

UTF8Stream.Close()

UTF8Stream = Nothing

Console.WriteLine ("Done!)

End Sub

End Class