Read a file line by line with VB NET

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The following code is used to read a file line by line   It s just a very early version  so all I want to do is display the string in the immediate window  It s working fine  except that characters such as                and so on are replaced by a black square with a question mark  According to the documentation  the file reader should be compatible with UTF-8 chars so I don t know what is wrong            Dim reader   File OpenText filetoimport Text       Dim line As String   Nothing      Dim lines As Integer   0      While  reader Peek    lt  gt  -1          line   reader ReadLine           If line StartsWith   lt item key      Then             Dim Firstpart As String   Nothing              Firstpart   line Substring 11  line IndexOf     value    - 11               Debug WriteLine Firstpart               lines   lines   1              Label3 Text   lines             Application DoEvents           Else             Label3 Text   lines             Application DoEvents           End If      End While        The file is ANSI-encoded  not UTF-8  but the reader uses UTF-8

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Like this    I used it to read Chinese characters     Dim reader as StreamReader   My Computer FileSystem OpenTextFileReader filetoimport Text  Dim a as String  Do    a   reader ReadLine           Code here      Loop Until a Is Nothing  reader Close

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Replaced the reader declaration with this one and now it works   Dim reader As New StreamReader filetoimport Text  Encoding Default    Encoding Default represents the ANSI code page that is set under Windows Control Panel

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