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Asked: 2026-06-06T06:20:17+00:00

My encryption application (written in C# & GTK# and using Rijndeal) takes a string

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My encryption application (written in C# & GTK# and using Rijndeal) takes a string from a textview to encrypt, and returns the result in a Byte array. I then use Encoding.Unicode.GetString() to convert it to a string, but my output doesn’t look right, it seems to contain invalid characters: `zźr[� ��ā�֖�Z�_����
W��h�.

I’m assuming that the encoding for the textview is not Unicode, but ASCII doesn’t work either. How can I ensure that the output is not invalid? Or is my approach wrong to begin with?

I’m new to C# and not very experienced with programming in general (I have decent skill in PHP and know a little JavaScript, but that’s about it) so if you could baby-down your answers it would be much appreciated.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to assist me.

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  1. Editorial Team

    While every string can be represented as a sequence of bytes using UTF-16, not every sequence of bytes represents a UTF-16 encoded string. Especially if the sequence of bytes is the result of an encryption process.

    You can use the Convert.ToBase64String Method to convert the sequence of bytes to a Base64 string.

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