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Saturday, April 21, 2007

Convert ASCII to Unicode in C#

Encoding ascii = Encoding.UTF32;

Byte[] b = ascii.GetBytes(c.ToString());

2 comments:

doesnt work!! getString accepts ubyte [] not a byte[], can someone please update this post.

Maybe this works better:

private string ConvertAsciiToUnicode(string theAsciiString) <

// Create two different encodings.

Encoding aAsciiEncoding = Encoding.ASCII;

Encoding aUnicodeEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;

// Convert the string into a byte[].

byte[] aAsciiBytes = aAsciiEncoding.GetBytes(theAsciiString);

// Perform the conversion from one encoding to the other.

byte[] aUnicodeBytes = Encoding.Convert(aAsciiEncoding, aUnicodeEncoding,

// Convert the new byte[] into a char[] and then into a string.

char[] aUnicodeChars = new

char[aUnicodeEncoding.GetCharCount(aUnicodeBytes, 0, aUnicodeBytes.Length)];

aUnicodeEncoding.GetChars(aUnicodeBytes, 0, aUnicodeBytes.Length,

string aUnicodeString = new string(aUnicodeChars);