Question

If i have a byte b encoded as ISO Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1) is it enough to do
char output = (char)b; This seems to work but I don’t know if there is another way.

Answer 1

A direct cast seems to work for this particular encoding. However, best practice would be to use the Encoding.GetChars method for proper conversion.

private static readonly Encoding Iso88591 = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO8859-1");

public static void Main() {
    var bytes = new Byte[] { 65 };
    var chars = Iso88591.GetChars(bytes);
}