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How to convert from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8?

I need to convert my html file that is in charset = iso-8859-1 to UTF-8, could you help me?
this is my code:
string converHtml = File.ReadAllText(html);
Encoding iso = Encoding.GetEncoding("windows-1252");
Encoding utf8 = Encoding.UTF8;
byte[] isoBytes = iso.GetBytes(converHtml);
byte[] utf8Bytes = Encoding.Convert(utf8, iso, isoBytes);
string msg = utf8.GetString(utf8Bytes);
msg = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(msg);
return msg;

thanks Klaus Gütter, Alexei Levenkov, it worked for me.
this is my code:
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(html, Encoding.GetEncoding(28591));
var ags = sr.ReadToEnd();

Decoding string xml in .net

Hy,
i want to decode a string which contain xml data in .net
but that string was encoded in java
System.Text.UTF8Encoding encoder = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
System.Text.Decoder utf8Decode = encoder.GetDecoder();
byte[] todecode_byte = Convert.FromBase64String(data);
int charCount = utf8Decode.GetCharCount(todecode_byte, 0, todecode_byte.Length);
char[] decoded_char = new char[charCount];
utf8Decode.GetChars(todecode_byte, 0, todecode_byte.Length, decoded_char, 0);
result = new String(decoded_char);
return result;
i have written that code but it throw error.
Thanks in Advance.

Assuming it really is UTF-8 which is then base64-encoded, you should just be able to write:
byte[] binary = Convert.FromBase64String(data);
string text = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(binary);
However, it sounds like it wasn't base64-encoded to start with - if you've already got it as text, you should be able to use it without any extra work.

Utf7Encoding Text truncation

I was having an issue with the Utf7Encoding class truncating the '+4' sequence.
I would be very interested to know why this was happening.
I tried Utf8Encoding for getting string from the byte[] array and it seem to work honky dory.
Are there any known issues like that with Utf8? Essentially I use the output produced by this conversion to construct html out of rtf string.
Here is the snippet:
UTF7Encoding utf = new UTF7Encoding();
UTF8Encoding utf8 = new UTF8Encoding();
string test = "blah blah 9+4";
char[] chars = test.ToCharArray();
byte[] charBytes = new byte[chars.Length];
for (int i = 0; i < chars.Length; i++)
{
charBytes[i] = (byte)chars[i];
}
string resultString = utf8.GetString(charBytes);
string resultStringWrong = utf.GetString(charBytes);
Console.WriteLine(resultString); //blah blah 9+4
Console.WriteLine(resultStringWrong); //blah 9

Converting to byte array through char array like that does not work. If you want the strings as charset-specific byte[] do this:
UTF7Encoding utf = new UTF7Encoding();
UTF8Encoding utf8 = new UTF8Encoding();
string test = "blah blah 9+4";
byte[] utfBytes = utf.GetBytes(test);
byte[] utf8Bytes = utf8.GetBytes(test);
string utfString = utf.GetString(utfBytes);
string utf8String = utf8.GetString(utf8Bytes);
Console.WriteLine(utfString);
Console.WriteLine(utf8String);
Output:
blah blah 9+4
blah blah 9+4

Your are not transating the string to utf7 bytes correctly. You should call utf.GetBytes() instead of casting the characters to a byte.
I suspect that in utf7 the ascii code corresponding to '+' is actually reserved for encoding international unicode characters.

Unicode-to-string conversion in C#

How can I convert a Unicode value to its equivalent string?
For example, I have "రమెశ్", and I need a function that accepts this Unicode value and returns a string.
I was looking at the System.Text.Encoding.Convert() function, but that does not take in a Unicode value; it takes two encodings and a byte array.
I bascially have a byte array that I need to save in a string field and then come back later and convert the string first back to a byte array.
So I use ByteConverter.GetString(byteArray) to save the byte array to a string, but I can't get it back to a byte array.

Use .ToString();:
this.Text = ((char)0x00D7).ToString();

Try the following:
byte[] bytes = ...;
string convertedUtf8 = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes);
string convertedUtf16 = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(bytes); // For UTF-16
The other way around is using `GetBytes():
byte[] bytesUtf8 = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(convertedUtf8);
byte[] bytesUtf16 = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(convertedUtf16);
In the Encoding class, there are more variants if you need them.

To convert a string to a Unicode string, do it like this: very simple... note the BytesToString function which avoids using any inbuilt conversion stuff. Fast, too.
private string BytesToString(byte[] Bytes)
{
MemoryStream MS = new MemoryStream(Bytes);
StreamReader SR = new StreamReader(MS);
string S = SR.ReadToEnd();
SR.Close();
return S;
}
private string ToUnicode(string S)
{
return BytesToString(new UnicodeEncoding().GetBytes(S));
}

UTF8Encoding Class
UTF8Encoding uni = new UTF8Encoding();
Console.WriteLine( uni.GetString(new byte[] { 1, 2 }));

There are different types of encoding. You can try some of them to see if your bytestream get converted correctly:
System.Text.ASCIIEncoding encodingASCII = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
System.Text.UTF8Encoding encodingUTF8 = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
System.Text.UnicodeEncoding encodingUNICODE = new System.Text.UnicodeEncoding();
var ascii = string.Format("{0}: {1}", encodingASCII.ToString(), encodingASCII.GetString(textBytesASCII));
var utf = string.Format("{0}: {1}", encodingUTF8.ToString(), encodingUTF8.GetString(textBytesUTF8));
var unicode = string.Format("{0}: {1}", encodingUNICODE.ToString(), encodingUNICODE.GetString(textBytesCyrillic));
Have a look here as well: http://george2giga.com/2010/10/08/c-text-encoding-and-transcoding/.

var ascii = $"{new ASCIIEncoding().ToString()}: {((ASCIIEncoding)new ASCIIEncoding()).GetString(textBytesASCII)}";
var utf = $"{new UTF8Encoding().ToString()}: {((UTF8Encoding)new UTF8Encoding()).GetString(textBytesUTF8)}";
var unicode = $"{new UnicodeEncoding().ToString()}: {((UnicodeEncoding)new UnicodeEncoding()).GetString(textBytesCyrillic)}";

Wrote a cycle for converting unicode symbols in string to UTF8 letters:
string stringWithUnicodeSymbols = #"{""id"": 10440119, ""photo"": 10945418, ""first_name"": ""\u0415\u0432\u0433\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0439""}";
var splitted = Regex.Split(stringWithUnicodeSymbols, #"\\u([a-fA-F\d]{4})");
string outString = "";
foreach (var s in splitted)
{
try
{
if (s.Length == 4)
{
var decoded = ((char) Convert.ToUInt16(s, 16)).ToString();
outString += decoded;
}
else
{
outString += s;
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
outString += s;
}
}

C# Convert string from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) H

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);

I think your problem is that you assume that the bytes that represent the utf8 string will result in the same string when interpreted as something else (iso-8859-1). And that is simply just not the case. I recommend that you read this excellent article by Joel spolsky.

Try this:
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);

You need to fix the source of the string in the first place.
A string in .NET is actually just an array of 16-bit unicode code-points, characters, so a string isn't in any particular encoding.
It's when you take that string and convert it to a set of bytes that encoding comes into play.
In any case, the way you did it, encoded a string to a byte array with one character set, and then decoding it with another, will not work, as you see.
Can you tell us more about where that original string comes from, and why you think it has been encoded wrong?

Seems bit strange code. To get string from Utf8 byte stream all you need to do is:
string str = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(utf8ByteArray);
If you need to save iso-8859-1 byte stream to somewhere then just use:
additional line of code for previous:
byte[] iso88591data = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes(str);

Maybe it can help
Convert one codepage to another:
public static string fnStringConverterCodepage(string sText, string sCodepageIn = "ISO-8859-8", string sCodepageOut="ISO-8859-8")
{
string sResultado = string.Empty;
try
{
byte[] tempBytes;
tempBytes = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(sCodepageIn).GetBytes(sText);
sResultado = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(sCodepageOut).GetString(tempBytes);
}
catch (Exception)
{
sResultado = "";
}
return sResultado;
}
Usage:
string sMsg = "ERRO: Não foi possivel acessar o servico de Autenticação";
var sOut = fnStringConverterCodepage(sMsg ,"ISO-8859-1","UTF-8"));
Output:
"Não foi possivel acessar o servico de Autenticação"

Encoding targetEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);
// Encode a string into an array of bytes.
Byte[] encodedBytes = targetEncoding.GetBytes(utfString);
// Show the encoded byte values.
Console.WriteLine("Encoded bytes: " + BitConverter.ToString(encodedBytes));
// Decode the byte array back to a string.
String decodedString = Encoding.Default.GetString(encodedBytes);

Just used the Nathan's solution and it works fine. I needed to convert ISO-8859-1 to Unicode:
string isocontent = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetString(fileContent, 0, fileContent.Length);
byte[] isobytes = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes(isocontent);
byte[] ubytes = Encoding.Convert(Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1"), Encoding.Unicode, isobytes);
return Encoding.Unicode.GetString(ubytes, 0, ubytes.Length);

Here is a sample for ISO-8859-9;
protected void btnKaydet_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Response.Clear();
Response.Buffer = true;
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.openxmlformatsofficedocument.wordprocessingml.documet";
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=XXXX.doc");
Response.ContentEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-9");
Response.Charset = "ISO-8859-9";
EnableViewState = false;
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
HtmlTextWriter html = new HtmlTextWriter(writer);
form1.RenderControl(html);
byte[] bytesInStream = Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-9").GetBytes(writer.ToString());
MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(bytesInStream);
string msgBody = "";
string Email = "mail#xxxxxx.org";
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("mail.xxxxx.org");
MailMessage message = new MailMessage(Email, "mail#someone.com", "ONLINE APP FORM WITH WORD DOC", msgBody);
Attachment att = new Attachment(memoryStream, "XXXX.doc", "application/vnd.openxmlformatsofficedocument.wordprocessingml.documet");
message.Attachments.Add(att);
message.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
message.IsBodyHtml = true;
client.Send(message);}