Convert simplified Chinese/UTF-8 string to traditional Chinese (Big5)

[David]

Hi, All,
I need to convert a simplified Chinese or UTF-8 string to a traditional
Chinese using C#. I found a very good link
(http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/45/229725.aspx) which gave me
some suggestion. However, it was in VB.Net and it had compile problem even
if I included Microsoft.VisualBasic in the reference. Does anyone know a
similar solution for my problem? Thank you very much in advance.

 

[Morten Wennevik]

Hi David,

I'm not familiar with the VB methods mentioned in the article,
but you should be able to convert the strings just fine using Encodings
and byte arrays.

Encoding original = Encoding.UTF8;
Encoding target = Encoding.GetEncoding("Big5");

byte[] data = original.GetBytes(text);
string convertedString = target.GetString(data);