C #: Characters do not display well when in the console, why?

Question

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The textInput variable comes from File.ReadAllText(path);, and characters like: 'é è ... are not displayed. When I run UnitTest, everything is fine! I see them ... why?

Answer 1

I don’t know why it works with NUnit, but I open the file with NotePad ++ and I see ANSI in the format. Now I switched to UTF-8 and it works.

I'm still wondering why it works with NUnit and not in the console? but at least it works now.

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

Try customizing the sessin console code output page with the chcp command . The code pages supported by windows are here , here , and here . Remember that the fundametnaly console is quite simple: it displays UNCICODE or DBCS characters, using a code page to display the displayed glyph.