Question

I have been trying to decode the following string:

Crédit 

in c# using the following code:

    Encoding iso = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
    Encoding utf8 = Encoding.UTF8;
    string msg = iso.GetString(utf8.GetBytes(@"Crédit"));

which is yielding:

Crédit

I looked online http://jeppesn.dk/utf-8.html and this is in correct utf 8 and should yield:

Crédit

Can someone please point out where i am going wrong?

Thanks

Answer 1

It should be the other way around, and Windows-1252, not ISO-8859-1. Depending on context, people usually mean Windows-1252 when they say Latin-1 or ISO-8859-1, but actually using ISO-8859-1 will fail when there are characters like € because it was a mislabeling in the first place. Even browsers use Windows-1252 when ISO-8859-1 is specified as encoding.

Encoding w1252 = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);
Encoding utf8 = Encoding.UTF8;
string msg = utf8.GetString(w1252.GetBytes(@"Crédit"));