FileInfo.OpenRead() - what type of encoding does it use?

Question

I'm using this method to write to a MemoryStream object, which is subsequently stored a binary in SQL. It is being used to read in .HTML files from the file system on Windows.

How do I know which type of encoding this data is being read in as? Thanks.

Answer 1

None, because it opens a binary stream. When you e.g. wrap stream into a StreamReader, that's the moment you choose the encoding. The FileStream itself as returned by the OpenRead method is not text based and thus does not have an encoding.