(VB.NET) Load Text File to String using any Code Page

Demonstrates how to load a file that contains text in any of the following binary representations (i.e. "charsets", "character encodings" or "code pages"). This list shows each supported charset name followed by the integer code page value.

us-ascii 20127
utf-8 65001
utf8 65001
utf-16 1200
utf16 1200
ucs-2 1200
ucs2 1200
unicode 1200
unicodefffe 1201
utf-7 65000
utf-32 65005
utf-32be 65006

windows-1250 1250
windows-1251 1251
windows-1252 1252
windows-1253 1253
windows-1254 1254
windows-1255 1255
windows-1256 1256
windows-1257 1257
windows-1258 1258
windows-874 874

iso-8859-1 28591
iso-8859-2 28592
iso-8859-3 28593
iso-8859-4 28594
iso-8859-5 28595
iso-8859-6 28596
iso-8859-7 28597
iso-8859-8 28598
iso-8859-9 28599
iso-8859-11 874
iso-8859-13 28603
iso-8859-15 28605
iso-8859-8-i 38598
iso-2022-jp 50220
iso-2022-kr 50225

big5 950
gb2312 936
ks-c-5601-1987 949
shift_jis 932

koi8-r 20866
koi8-u 21866
koi 20866
koi8 20866
koi8-ru 21866
koi8r 20866

unicode-1-1-utf-7 65000
unicode-1-1-utf-8 65001
unicode-2-0-utf-7 65000
unicode-2-0-utf-8 65001
us 20127
utf-16be 1201
utf-16le 1200
utf16be 1201
utf16le 1200

iso-10646-ucs-2 1200
iso-2022-jpeuc 51932
iso-2022-kr-7 50225
iso-2022-kr-7bit 50225
iso-2022-kr-8 51949
iso-2022-kr-8bit 51949
iso-8859-8 visual 28598
iso-ir-100 28591
iso-ir-101 28592
iso-ir-109 28593
iso-ir-110 28594
iso-ir-126 28597
iso-ir-127 28596
iso-ir-138 28598
iso-ir-144 28595
iso-ir-148 28599
iso-ir-149 949
iso-ir-58 936
iso-ir-6 20127
iso646-us 20127
iso-646.irv:1991 20127
iso-8859-1:1987 28591
iso-8859-2:1987 28592
iso-8859-3:1988 28593
iso-8859-4:1988 28594
iso-8859-5:1988 28595
iso-8859-6:1987 28596
iso-8859-7:1987 28597
iso-8859-8:1988 28598
iso-8859-9:1989 28599
iso-2022-jp-1 50221
iso-2022-jp-2 50222
ibm037 37
ibm437 437
ibm500 500
ibm737 737
ibm775 775
ibm850 850
ibm852 852
ibm855 855
ibm857 857
ibm00858 858
ibm860 860
ibm861 861
ibm863 863
ibm864 864
ibm865 865
ibm869 869
ibm870 870
ibm1026 1026
ibm01140 1140
ibm01141 1141
ibm01142 1142
ibm01143 1143
ibm01144 1144
ibm01145 1145
ibm01146 1146
ibm01147 1147
ibm01148 1148
ibm01149 1149
ibm273 20273
ibm277 20277
ibm278 20278
ibm280 20280
ibm284 20284
ibm285 20285
ibm290 20290
ibm297 20297
ibm420 20420
ibm423 20423
ibm424 20424
ibm871 20871
ibm880 20880
ibm905 20905
ibm00924 20924
ibm-thai 20838
ibm01047 1047
ibm037 37
ibm1026 1026
ibm367 20127
ibm437 437
ibm500 500
ibm737 737
ibm775 775
ibm819 28591
ibm862 862
ibm866 866
irv 20105

x-chinese-cns 20000
x-cp20001 20001
x-chinese-eten 20002
x-cp20003 20003
x-cp20004 20004
x-cp20005 20005
x-cp20261 20261
x-cp20269 20269
x-cp20936 20936
x-cp20949 20949
x-cp50227 50227
x-cp1250 1250
x-cp1251 1251
x-cp21027 21027
x-cp50227 50227

x-mac-japanese 10001
x-mac-chinesetrad 10002
x-mac-korean 10003
x-mac-arabic 10004
x-mac-hebrew 10005
x-mac-greek 10006
x-mac-cyrillic 10007
x-mac-chinesesimp 10008
x-mac-romanian 10010
x-mac-ukrainian 10017
x-mac-thai 10021
x-mac-ce 10029
x-mac-icelandic 10079
x-mac-turkish 10081
x-mac-croatian 10082

x-ia5 20105
x-ia5-german 20106
x-ia5-swedish 20107
x-ia5-norwegian 20108

x-iscii-de 57002
x-iscii-be 57003
x-iscii-ta 57004
x-iscii-te 57005
x-iscii-as 57006
x-iscii-or 57007
x-iscii-ka 57008
x-iscii-ma 57009
x-iscii-gu 57010
x-iscii-pa 57011

x-ansi 1252

x-ebcdic-koreanextended 20833
x-ebcdic-japaneseanduscanada 50931
x-ebcdic-koreanextended 20833

x-euc 51932
x-euc-cn 51936
x-euc-jp 51932
x-europa 29001

x-ms-cp932 932
x-sjis 932
x-unicode-1-1-utf-7 65000
x-unicode-1-1-utf-8 65001
x-unicode-2-0-utf-7 65000
x-unicode-2-0-utf-8 65001
x-user-defined 50000
x-x-big5 950

big5-hkscs 950

cp1025 21025
cp1026 1026
cp1250 1250
cp1251 1251
cp1252 1252
cp1253 1253
cp1254 1254
cp1255 1255
cp1256 1256
cp1257 1257
cp1258 1258
cp866 866
cp875 875
cp00858 858
cp00924 20924
cp01140 1140
cp01141 1141
cp01142 1142
cp01143 1143
cp01144 1144
cp01145 1145
cp01146 1146
cp01147 1147
cp01148 1148
cp01149 1149
cp037 37
cp273 20273
cp278 20278
cp280 20280
cp284 20284
cp285 20285
cp290 20290
cp297 20297
cp367 20127
cp420 20420
cp423 20423
cp424 20424
cp437 437
cp500 500
cp50227 50227
cp819 28591
cp850 850
cp852 852
cp855 855
cp857 857
cp858 858
cp860 860
cp861 861
cp862 862
cp863 863
cp864 864
cp865 865
cp869 869
cp870 870
cp871 20871
cp880 20880
cp905 20905
cp930 50930
cp933 50933
cp935 50935
cp937 50937
cp939 50939

csiso2022jp 50220
csascii 20127
csbig5 950
cseuckr 51949
cseucpkdfmtjapanese 51932
csgb2312 936
csgb231280 936

csibm037 37
csibm1026 1026
csibm273 20273
csibm277 20277
csibm278 20278
csibm280 20280
csibm284 20284
csibm285 20285
csibm290 20290
csibm297 20297
csibm420 20420
csibm423 20423
csibm424 20424
csibm500 500
csibm870 870
csibm871 20871
csibm880 20880
csibm905 20905
csibmthai 20838

csiso2022kr 50225
csiso58gb231280 936
csisolatin1 28591
csisolatin2 28592
csisolatin3 28593
csisolatin4 28594
csisolatin5 28599
csisolatin9 28605
csisolatinarabic 28596
csisolatincyrillic 28595
csisolatingreek 28597
csisolatinhebrew 28598
cskoi8r 20866
csksc56011987 949
cspc8codepage437 437
csshiftjis 932
csunicode11utf7 65000
cswindows31j 932

ccsid00858 858
ccsid00924 20924
ccsid01140 1140
ccsid01141 1141
ccsid01142 1142
ccsid01143 1143
ccsid01144 1144
ccsid01145 1145
ccsid01146 1146
ccsid01147 1147
ccsid01148 1148
ccsid01149 1149

chinese 936
cn-big5 950
cn-gb 936
cyrillic 28595
dos-720 720
dos-862 862
din-66003 20106
dos-874 874

ebcdic 37
euc-jp 51932
euc-cn 51936
euc-kr 51949
euc-tw 51950

ebcdic-cp-ar1 20420
ebcdic-cp-be 500
ebcdic-cp-ca 37
ebcdic-cp-ch 500
ebcdic-cp-dk 20277
ebcdic-cp-es 20284
ebcdic-cp-fi 20278
ebcdic-cp-fr 20297
ebcdic-cp-gb 20285
ebcdic-cp-gr 20423
ebcdic-cp-he 20424
ebcdic-cp-is 20871
ebcdic-cp-it 20280
ebcdic-cp-nl 37
ebcdic-cp-no 20277
ebcdic-cp-roece 870
ebcdic-cp-se 20278
ebcdic-cp-tr 20905
ebcdic-cp-us 37
ebcdic-cp-wt 37
ebcdic-cp-yu 870
ebcdic-cyrillic 20880
ebcdic-de-273+euro 1141
ebcdic-dk-277+euro 1142
ebcdic-es-284+euro 1145
ebcdic-fi-278+euro 1143
ebcdic-fr-297+euro 1147
ebcdic-gb-285+euro 1146
ebcdic-is-871+euro 1149
ebcdic-it-280+euro 1144
ebcdic-jp-kana 20290
ebcdic-latin9--euro 20924
ebcdic-no-277+euro 1142
ebcdic-se-278+euro 1143
ebcdic-us-37+euro 1140

ecma-114 28596
ecma-118 28597
elot-928 28597
gb18030 936
gb18030-2000 936
gb2312-80 936
gbk 936
gb-2312-80 936
german 20106
greek 28597
greek8 28597
hz-gb-2312 52936
hebrew 28598
asmo-708 708
ansi-x3.4-1968 20127
ansi-x3.4-1986 20127
arabic 28596
ascii 20127
asmo-449 709
asmo-449+ 709
johab 1361
korean 949
ks-c-5601 949
ks-c5601 949
ksc5601 949
ksc-5601 949
ks-c-5601 949
ks-c-5601-1989 949

l1 28591
l2 28592
l3 28593
l4 28594
l5 28599
l9 28605

latin1 28591
latin2 28592
latin3 28593
latin4 28594
latin5 28599
latin-1 28591
latin-2 28592
latin-3 28593
latin-4 28594
latin-5 28599
latin9 28605
latin-9 28605
logical 28598

macintosh 10000
macroman 10000
macjapanese 10001
macchinesetrad 10002
mackorean 10003
macarabic 10004
machebrew 10005
macgreek 10006
maccyrillic 10007
macchinesesimp 10008
maccentraleurope 10029
macicelandic 10079
macturkish 10081
ms-kanji 932

norwegian 20108
ns-4551-1 20108
shiftjis 932
shift-jis 932
sen-850200-b 20107
sjis 932
swedish 20107
tis-620 874
visual 28598

Chilkat .NET Downloads Chilkat .NET Framework Chilkat for .NET Core

'  For programming languages where strings are byte sequences, indicate
'  that we wish for all strings to be passed to Chilkat and returned from Chilkat
'  as utf-8 (instead of ANSI).
'  This does not apply to programming languages where strings are objects or
'  already Unicode/utf-8, such as C#, VB.NET, Swift, Foxpro, Java, etc.
Dim glob As New Chilkat.Global
glob.DefaultUtf8 = True


Dim sbText As New Chilkat.StringBuilder

'  Simply indicate the name of the charset when loading:
Dim success As Boolean = sbText.LoadFile("something.txt","windows-1251")
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine("Failed to load the file.")
    Exit Sub
End If


'  Get the text as a string.  Chilkat already converted from the charset
'  specified in the call to LoadFile.  (Internally, Chilkat always holds
'  strings as utf-8.)
Dim s As String = sbText.GetAsString()