>I receive an array of bytes that is supposed to represent a string of characters. The characters are coded using Windows-1252 character encoding.
>I have two tasks:
>1) Convert the byte array to a string.
>2) Change the string and create a new byte array.
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>Until now I have been using the following code:
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>string myString = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(byteArray);
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>byte[] byteArray = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(myString);
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>Now all was well until someone sent be a byte that was greater than 0x7F.
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>Does anyone know how I can convert a byte array to a string using the Windows-1252 character encoding and then convert back?
>
>Thanks,
>Einar

Well I ended up creating my own custom class with a static lookup table, mostly because because there were some chars that had to be excluded (like the ß which is one of my fav chars), but also because creating a lookup table was probably the easiest solution.