Chad Chisholm wrote:
> I'm having trouble with an ascii character...
>
> °
>
> ...getting turned into ...
>
> °
>
> ...when I write it to a file and open in Excel. It looks fine in
> notepad, but excel mucks it up. I can only guess it's a Ascii to UTF8
> problem.
>
> Does anyone have any idea, or perhaps a lesson on strings they'd like
> to share?

"Chad Chisholm" wrote:

> Yes. It's UTF8 encoding, I beleive. Here is my code:
>
> class Class1
> {
> public static void Main(string[] args)
> {
> string degree = ("°");
> string sFile = "testingAscii.csv";
> System.IO.StreamWriter writer =
> System.IO.File.CreateText(sFile);
>
> try
> {
> writer.Write(degree);
> }
> finally
> {
> writer.Close();
> }
> System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(sFile);
> }
> }
>
>
> Thanks for any advice.