c# text encoding when importing from csv file

Question

I am reading lines from a CSV file using C#. However, the text that is read is incorrectly encoded. I have tried to convert it to UTF8 but to no avail.

string type_of_loan = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1").GetBytes(lineParts[5]));

I opened the file in an editor and it renders correctly when I open it using Western Latin 1 (iso-8859-1), but originally it says it is in Western Roman encoding and using that encoding I am getting the faulty characters to display as shown in the attached images.

Note that the weird question mark character shows up in C# even before it is saved to the DB.

I am expecting the swedish character "å" in its place.

Answer 1

This solved it:

var linesInFile = sftp.ReadLines(file.FullName, Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1"));

Thanks @ckuri