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Asked: 2026-06-09T22:45:19+00:00

Why is the output different between Console and Debug? byte [] data = new

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Why is the output different between Console and Debug?

byte [] data = new byte [] {0xB1, 0x00,0xA6,0x7C, 0x4e, 0xEC, 0xE7, 0xFF, 0xDD, 0xCE};

Console.WriteLine (new String(Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetChars(data)));
Console.WriteLine (Encoding.UTF8.GetString(data));

Debug.WriteLine (new String(Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetChars(data)));
Debug.WriteLine (new String(Encoding.UTF8.GetChars(data)));

“Console.WriteLine” (Latin1 encoding) output -> ±¦|NìçÿÝÎ

“Console.WriteLine” (UTF8) output -> ��|N�����

“Debug.WriteLine” shows no output.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have a 0x00 in the second position of the array, which is, as you know, a string end. Debug.WriteLine outputs in the ASCII encoding. Therefore, it outputs only the first byte in the Output window.

    If you change 0x00 to 0x01 you will see the full output.

    MORE When I look at new String(Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetChars(data)) in the Watch window I see an exception being thrown:

    'new String(Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetChars(data))' threw an exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' string {System.ArgumentException}

    This usually happens when attempting to access an Array element that doesn’t exist.

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