Question

I have a Star Micronics TSP that supports CodePage 1001 Arabic, how do I convert UTF-8 to that specific code page using C#?

Update: I found out that CodePage 864 is compatible with the printer, I tried sending hex values and I got the correct character,

myPrinter.PrintNormal(PrinterStation.Receipt, "\xFE8D");

I tried the following to convert a string to codePage 864:

Encoding enc = Encoding.GetEncoding(864);
byte[] arr = enc.GetBytes("السلام");

the byte arr values i’m getting after the encoding is {63,63,63,63,63,63} which is wrong in value and even the byte count is wrong because its a double byte character.

Answer 1

Untested, but:

String s = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes);
Encoding enc = Encoding.GetEncoding(1001);
byte[] arr2 = enc.GetBytes(s);

Of course, skip the first line if you are actually starting with a string, but since you mention UTF-8 I assumed binary.

Obviously for large data volumes you might use a TextReader/TextWriter (each with encoding) instead – but same idea.