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Asked: 2026-05-11T18:59:14+00:00

Is there any easy way of converting a windows-1252 string into a Unicode one?

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Is there any easy way of converting a windows-1252 string into a Unicode one?

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    All strings in .NET are Unicode in memory.
    If you have a byte array that was generated from a string encoded in 1252, you can recover the string using

    Dim S as String = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).GetString(array)

    It is now a unicode string in memory. If you then want to encode that string into a UTF-8 byte array for transmission or storage, you would do the converse: 

    Dim A as byte() = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("UTF-8").GetBytes(S)

    (I think that is the right VB syntax!)

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