Hi Rick
You are right.
Thanks for the code.

>Uh, whatever that formatting you're proposing is, it's not UTF-8. Space is not something that is UTF-8 encoded. In fact, none of the lower 128 base ascii bytes should encode.
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>For UTF-8 encoding you should use System.Text.Encoding.UTF8. Something like this:
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>string Text = "This is some text - æ I ¢ üì";
>byte[] Buffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Text);
>string Utf8String = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(Buffer);
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>In fact the string returned from the above will be something very ugly (probably won't show correctly here):
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>This is some text - æ I ¢ üì
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>You can apply additional encoding to that string after the fact, but I don't recognize what type of encoding you're using there...
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>HtmlEncoding will yield:
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>This is some text - æ I ¢ üì
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>Hi all
>>
>>How do I encode to UTF8 a string containing:
>>"XXX Status Updates"
>>so the end result will be:
>>"XXX_x0020_Status_x0020_Updates"
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>>Notice that there are other kind of replacements as "/", etc that UTF8 encodes, and that is what I need.
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>>I'm trying hard but so far is it not working... sometimes it is something simple as this what makes you waste so much time...
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>>TIA
>>Max