I'm having a problem with some ascii codes here and I can't figure it out. It would be great if someone could help me. Anyway, in VFP:

?chr( asc(chr(149))

displays some weird symbol, but a symbol I need.

the problem is with the chr(149). Of course, I'm not actually using
'chr(149)', but the appropriate character. Just doing it this way for display purposes here.
Now, if I had a string that began with chr(149), in c#:

int nAscVal = (int)Char.Parse( cString.Substring( 0, 1 ) )

nAscVal now has a value of 8226, it should be 149.

It must have something to do with the encoding, but I don't know what. I've tried some stuff, like:

int pintAsc = (new ASCIIEncoding()).GetBytes(new char[]{Char.Parse( cString.Substring( 0, 1 ))})[0];

but no matter what character I select with the substring, it always returns a value of 63 to pintAsc. I'm lost on this one, anyone got any clues? Thanks,
jfh