what encoding is that ?

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I open notepad, press alt + 131 and I can see â appeared.

Now, I do same thing in C#

Encoding.ASCII.GetString(new byte[] { 131 });

it returns a question mark, and of course it correct as its for 7 bit.

Then I iterated through all the encodings to know which one is returning â for 131 and I found several encodings.

But I want the actual one that is use by windows when we type its code using Alt key.

I guess its Encoding.GetEncoding(437), but I want to make sure.

Posted 22-Feb-10 17:05pm

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2010-02-23T12:44:00

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I used Character Map to find that <alt>131 or 0x83 gives â in the DOS United States character set. The actual character that is displayed will depend on the code set in use in command windows, and the selected font in Windows windows.

Posted 23-Feb-10 12:44pm

Richard MacCutchan