Post date: Feb 12, 2010 2:15:16 PM
public void convertToOldEncoding(string fileName, Encoding encoding) { string tempFile = fileName + ".tmp"; try { if (File.Exists(tempFile)) File.Delete(tempFile); File.Move(fileName, tempFile); StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(tempFile); StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fileName, false, encoding); sw.WriteLine(sr.ReadToEnd()); sw.Close(); sr.Close(); File.Delete(tempFile); Alarm.AlarmInstance.writeToLog("File converted to Ascii: " + fileName); } catch (Exception ex) { Alarm.AlarmInstance.raiseAlarm("convertToOldEncoding failed with message: " + ex.ToString()); } }