Read a text file saved with Big Endian Unicode encoding
Imports System Imports System.IO Namespace BigEndianExample Public Class Class1 Public Overloads Shared Sub Main() Dim encoding As System.Text.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.BigEndianUnicode Dim reader As New StreamReader("TextFile.txt", encoding) Dim line As String = reader.ReadLine() While Not (line Is Nothing) Console.WriteLine(line) line = reader.ReadLine() End While End Sub End Class End Namespace