I have googled on this topic and I have looked at every answer, but I still don't get it.
Basically I need to convert UTF-8 string to ISO-8859-1 and I do it using following code:
Encoding iso = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
Encoding utf8 = Encoding.UTF8;
string msg = iso.GetString(utf8.GetBytes(Message));
My source string is
Message = "ÄäÖöÕõÜü"
But unfortunately my result string becomes
msg = "�ä�ö�õ�ü
What I'm doing wrong here?
Use Encoding.Convert to adjust the byte array before attempting to decode it into your destination encoding.
Encoding iso = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
Encoding utf8 = Encoding.UTF8;
byte[] utfBytes = utf8.GetBytes(Message);
byte[] isoBytes = Encoding.Convert(utf8, iso, utfBytes);
string msg = iso.GetString(isoBytes);
The one liner is
Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetString(Encoding.Convert(Encoding.UTF8, Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1"), Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(myString)))If you are creating the string yourself inside C#/.Net, then this code is not 100% correct, you need to encode from UTF-16 (which is the variable "Unicode"). Because this is the default. So UTF8 in the code above has to be changed to Unicode.
I recommend to use this: Encoding iso = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-9"); Because turkish encoding covers allmost all alphabet extended from Latin.