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hello,

i have an ASCII file and i open it with: StreamReader SR = File.OpenText("pathtofile"), but this method opens an UTF-8 encoded text file. i read that everything that's UTF-8 is also ASCII but i don't really understand these encodings. so, is it a problem if i open the file in this manner?

thank you

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thanks snake. i read in that article that "A UTF-8 file that contains only ASCII characters is identical to an ASCII file. ", so my guess again is that if i have an ASCII file that only contains digits and commas, i can open it with File.OpenText("pathtofile").

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