Not able to read special character “£” using Streamreader in

I am trying to read a character (£) from a text file, using the following code:

public static List ReadAllLines(string path, bool discardEmptyLines, bool doTrim) {

var retVal = new List();

if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(path) || !File.Exists(path))
{
Comm.File.Log.LogError("ReadAllLines", string.Format("Could not load file: {0}", path)); return retVal; }

//StreamReader sr = null;

StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(path, Encoding.Default));

try {
sr = File.OpenText(path); while (sr.Peek() >= 0)
{
var line = sr.ReadLine();
if (discardEmptyLines && (line == null || string.IsNullOrEmpty(line.Trim())))
{
continue; }
if (line != null) { retVal.Add(doTrim ? line.Trim() : line);
}
}
}

catch (Exception ex)
{
Comm.File.Log.LogGeneralException("ReadAllLines", ex);
}
finally
{
if (sr != null) { sr.Close();
}
}
But my code is not correctly reading £, It is reading the character as ? please guide me what needs to be done to read the special character.
And My text file is::
108|25|50001408|4|6.95|£
108|25|50001392|4|5.23|£
108|25|50001385|3|5.29|£
108|25|50001378|3|14.25|£
Thanks in advance.

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kris12y ago
None of the above Solution Worked.
But the below solution worked perfectly.
thanks for your help...
FileStream fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read);
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(fs, Encoding.Default);
Vulpes12y ago
It depends what encoding was used to create the text file in the first place, but I'd try:

StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(path, Encoding.UTF8);

or, if that doesn't work:

StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(path, Encoding.GetEncoding(1252));