Encoding.Default Works not Encoding.UTF8 ??

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Hari - 09 Oct 2007 15:00 GMT

Is there any issue in Using Encoding.Default.I used this bcz when i tried to
encode some swedish special charachters its changing that special charachter
to some other charachter .I tried using differnt types of encodings nothing
working atlast i find encoding.default i tried its work fine!!!! but is there
any issues using this type of encoding.

i can place one string having this special charachter

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2)TIDKÖPINGS

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Jon Skeet [C# MVP] - 09 Oct 2007 15:13 GMT

> Is there any issue in Using Encoding.Default.

Well, it's specific to the particular encoding which your computer
uses by default.

> I used this bcz when i tried to
> encode some swedish special charachters its changing that special charachter
> to some other charachter .I tried using differnt types of encodings nothing
> working

Could you define what you mean by "nothing working"? Encoding.UTF8 is
usually a good general-purpose encoding, but it depends what will be
reading the data you're writing.

Jon

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