How do I write out a text file in C# with a code page other than UTF-8?

Question

I want to write out a text file.

Instead of the default UTF-8, I want to write it encoded as ISO-8859-1 which is code page 28591. I have no idea how to do this...

I'm writing out my file with the following very simple code:

using (StreamWriter sw = File.CreateText(myfilename)) {     sw.WriteLine("my text...");     sw.Close(); } 

Answer 1

using System.IO; using System.Text;  using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(File.Open(myfilename, FileMode.Create), Encoding.WhateverYouWant)) {         sw.WriteLine("my text...");      } 

An alternate way of getting your encoding:

using System.IO; using System.Text;  using (var sw  = new StreamWriter(File.Open(@"c:\myfile.txt", FileMode.CreateNew), Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1"))) {     sw.WriteLine("my text...");              } 

Check out the docs for the StreamWriter constructor.

Answer 2

Simple!

System.IO.File.WriteAllText(path, text, Encoding.GetEncoding(28591));