ReadAllText and Encoding?

I am trying to parse a file using ReadAllText. The log file has a summary section and then an array of data. The file is not in standard AISCII. Am I using the correct method and do I just need to find the correct character encoding or am I missing something? Is there an free/share application that can load the file with different encoding to see which one is correct?

The file looks like when I open it in Wordpad:

��6 mi steady+��WarmUp 1.00 mi

Run 4 mi 50-80%

Recover 1 mié��°R��

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(... for a 300 k file)

I can attach/send the complete file if it would help.

Thanks.

Mark

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Know the answer? Post it — somebody with the same question will find it here.

Mark Fleming20y ago
Update - I created a little app that displayed the text and used a combo box to select the encoding. However, I did not find an encoding that displayed the correct characters. It seems that letters are displayed properly, but numbers are not. Since the file is a summary section and then a large array of numbers, is there another method that the numbers could be stored in?

Thanks.
Mark