I just ran this sample code and it returned 149. Try this and see what you get:

String cString;
Char mychar;
mychar=(char)149;
cString = mychar.ToString() + "ABC";
int lnChar = (int)Char.Parse(cString.Substring( 0, 1 ));

>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:
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>?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#:
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>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:
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>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