Text Encoding Options for NLog

I’ve been using NLog for a while now and recently decided I wanted to have some of my log files written as Unicode text.  I learned that you can specify this in your <target> sections of NLog.config as follows:

&lt;targets&gt;<br />    &lt;!-- add your targets here --&gt;<br />    &lt;target xsi:type="File" name="mainFile" fileName="${logFile}"<br />          archiveEvery="Day" archiveNumbering="Sequence" concurrentWrites="false" maxArchiveFiles="30"<br />          layout="${layout}" encoding="UTF-8" /&gt;<br />&lt;/targets&gt;

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&lt;targets&gt;<br />    &lt;!-- add your targets here --&gt;<br />    &lt;target xsi:type="File" name="mainFile" fileName="${logFile}"<br />          archiveEvery="Day" archiveNumbering="Sequence" concurrentWrites="false" maxArchiveFiles="30"<br />          layout="${layout}" encoding="UTF-8" /&gt;<br />&lt;/targets&gt;

Note that I only tested two different encodings, “Unicode” and “UTF-8”.  Also, “UTF-8” must have the hyphen in it to work.

Rob

This post was migrated from https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rob/2013/01/05/text-encoding-options-for-nlog/.