Question

I have a string (C# code) that looks as follows:

string s = "Indsætning";

It is encoded in some way that I am not sure of.

I’d like to decode it so that I get the following string:

Indsætning

I have tried with

string s1 = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(s);
string s2 = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(s);

However, I don’t get the string that I am looking for.

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Convert the string to bytes and then using the Encoding class to get the UTF-8 string representation.

string s = "Indsætning";

byte[] sBytes = s.Select(x => (byte)x).ToArray();
string decoded = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(sBytes);

Edit – As mentioned in the comments, this assumes that the string being converted is of a particular encoding (Latin-1 in this case). Therefore, it won’t necessarily work for all strings, unless you know that they’ve all been encoded into the same format.