How do I convert from windows-1252 to ascii extended

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I am trying to convert a string which has a special character ¤. The default encoding I have is Windows-1252. And the char code is 164 ( Windows-1252) but in Ascii Extended, char code 164 is ñ ( Ascii Table). The problem i am running into is that after i have converted from Windows-1252 to Ascii, i get � in the output instead of ñ. What am i doing wrong ?

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var input = "La Pe¤a";

var extAscii = Encoding.GetEncoding(437);

Encoding win1252 = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);

var bytes1252 = win1252.GetBytes(input);

byte[] output = Encoding.Convert(Encoding.GetEncoding(1252), Encoding.GetEncoding(437),bytes1252);

Console.WriteLine(extAscii.GetString(output));
Console.ReadLine();

thanks for you help.

Posted 28-Jun-17 3:44am

rudolph098

Updated 28-Jun-17 8:19am

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KarstenK · Answer 1 · 2017-06-28T06:53:00

The output is an interpretation of the data. Check if the problematic char isnt the value 164 or if it is an output problem. Maybe the console can only show ascii.

C#

String input = "La Pe¤a";

Encoding extAscii = Encoding.GetEncoding(437);
Encoding win1252 = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);

var bytes1252 = win1252.GetBytes(input);

byte[] output = Encoding.Convert(win1252, extAscii, bytes1252);//use of the objects
int problem = output[5];//check for 164

Some additional sample code from Microsoft.

rudolph098 · Answer 2 · 2017-06-28T08:19:00

Ok, i have a solution. For now, i don't know why i get 15 when i do the following conversion below.

C#

String input = "La Pe¤a";

Encoding extAscii = Encoding.GetEncoding(437);
Encoding win1252 = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);

var bytes1252 = win1252.GetBytes(input);

byte[] output = Encoding.Convert(win1252, extAscii, bytes1252);//use of the objects
int problem = output[5];//check for 164

so what i decided to do was to convert from asci to asci

C#

byte[] output = Encoding.Convert(extAscii, extAscii, bytes1252);//use of the objects
int problem = output[5];//check for 164

And that is how i get 164 which in ascii is ñ

How do I convert from windows-1252 to ascii extended

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