How to convert string charset?

[Miros³aw Iwanowski]

Hello!

I need to conver string (sql statement) from one Polish charset standard
(ISO-8859-2) to another (Win-1250). Using help I managed to create line like
this one:
sql=Encoding.ASCII.GetString(Encoding.Convert(Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859
-2"),Encoding.GetEncoding("windows-1250"),Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(sql)));
But it doesn't work. I know that ASCII isn't right here because it's 7 bit
representation and special characters are in the "second part" of the
charset.

How should I do it?

Regards
Leon

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I need to conver string (sql statement) from one Polish charset standard
(ISO-8859-2) to another (Win-1250). Using help I managed to create line like
this one:
sql=Encoding.ASCII.GetString(Encoding.Convert(Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859
-2"),Encoding.GetEncoding("windows-1250"),Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(sql)));
But it doesn't work. I know that ASCII isn't right here because it's 7 bit
representation and special characters are in the "second part" of the
charset.

How should I do it?

Strings themselves are always in unicode, whatever their origin. Unless
you're really dealing with the byte arrays, you shouldn't need to do
any conversion. It sounds like you may have received bad data to start
with, if you're having problems.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/unicode.html for more
information.