Error reading certain characters from SD card

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1

Hi, I have an SD Card shield with a text file on it.

When I read the text it works great other than with certain characters such as ' ( ) etc.

When i read those characters and send them to the serial monitor I get a ��� 3 character sequence like this.

So that the word "I'll" look like this "I���ll"

Here is a code snippet.

Thanks.

Phil

#include <SPI.h>
#include <SD.h>

File myFile;
char mydata;

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  SD.begin(10);    // initialise the SD card


  myFile = SD.open("chad.txt");
  while (myFile.available()) {
    mydata = (myFile.read());
    Serial.write(mydata);
  }

  myFile.close();
} // setup




void loop() {


}//end loop
2

Is the Serial Monitor speed set to 9600?

3

It turns out there were some odd characters in the file...

the text editor was being too smart and was adding smart quotes etc.

Thanks.

Phil