conversion of text to ascii text

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srikanth2321 -2 Junior Poster in Training

13 Years Ago

HI,

I have a software which gives me a text file which consist of German characters and are stores in the notepad with space. When I open it with note-tab software initially the german character is stored as space but they have a option " convert to ASCII text" then suddenly it showed all the strange characters.

So, I also tried to convert the text to ASCII but when I run it it is just returning me "?" instead of character.

My code is

private void button13_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
      string str = "Mller,J.A."; // It should be converted to Müller,J.A.
      string inputString = textBox15.Text; 
      Encoding encoder = ASCIIEncoding.GetEncoding("us-ascii", new EncoderReplacementFallback(string.Empty), new DecoderExceptionFallback());
      byte[] bAsciiString = encoder.GetBytes(inputString);
      string cleanString = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bAsciiString);
      MessageBox.Show(cleanString);
    }

I got it from Google. Is there something that I have to edit so that I can show German characters?

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C#Jaap 5 Junior Poster in Training

13 Years Ago

May "us-ascii" is not completely suitable. See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding.aspx (and especially the Remarks part).

Edited 13 Years Ago by C#Jaap because: n/a

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srikanth2321 -2 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 1 · 2011-05-19T18:46:40+00:00

May "us-ascii" is not completely suitable. See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding.aspx (and especially the Remarks part).

Hi,

Thanks, I used the given format in the link you provided "x-IA5-German ", but it doesn't help.

C#Jaap 5 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 2 · 2011-05-19T19:03:51+00:00

Hi,

This link learned me some German characters cannot converted to ASCII http://lehfo-saga.blogspot.com/2011/03/convert-german-characters-non-ascii.html but the table contain the mentioned characters http://bestofthisweb.com/blogs/tag/ascii-table/? Can't you use a different character-set like UTF?

srikanth2321 -2 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 3 · 2011-05-19T19:25:47+00:00

Hi,
This link learned me some German characters cannot converted to ASCII http://lehfo-saga.blogspot.com/2011/03/convert-german-characters-non-ascii.html but the table contain the mentioned characters http://bestofthisweb.com/blogs/tag/ascii-table/? Can't you use a different character-set like UTF?

HI,

Thanks,

I'm trying it but not yet all working.:(