store strings as ASCII rather than UNICODE

[Tom]

Is it possible to make the compiler store the strings in a
program in ASCII rather than UNICODE? The code needs to
run in a very space-limited environment. Thanks.

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Is it possible to make the compiler store the strings in a
program in ASCII rather than UNICODE? The code needs to
run in a very space-limited environment. Thanks.

Well, you could just use byte arrays instead, and then when you really
needed them as strings, use Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes).