Question

I have xml where some of the element values are unicode characters. Is it possible to represent this in an ANSI encoding?

E.g.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <xml> <value>受</value> </xml> 

to

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='Windows-1252'?> <xml> <value>&#27544;</value> </xml> 

I deserialize the XML and then attempt to serialize it using XmlTextWriter specifying the Default encoding (Default is Windows-1252). All the unicode characters end up as question marks. I’m using VS 2008, C# 3.5

Answer 1

Okay I tested it with the following code:

 string xml = '<?xml version=\'1.0\' encoding=\'utf-8\'?><xml><value>受</value></xml>';   XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings { Encoding = Encoding.Default };  MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();  using (XmlWriter writer = XmlTextWriter.Create(ms, settings))       XElement.Parse(xml).WriteTo(writer);   string value = Encoding.Default.GetString(ms.ToArray()); 

And it correctly escaped the unicode character thus:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='Windows-1252'?><xml><value>&#x53D7;</value></xml> 

I must be doing something wrong somewhere else. Thanks for the help.