using System; using System.Text; namespace ConvertExample { class ConvertExampleClass { staticvoid Main() { string unicodeString ="This string contains the unicode character Pi(\u03a0)"; // Create two different encodings. Encoding ascii = Encoding.ASCII; Encoding unicode = Encoding.Unicode; // Convert the string into a byte[]. byte[] unicodeBytes = unicode.GetBytes(unicodeString); // Perform the conversion from one encoding to the other. byte[] asciiBytes = Encoding.Convert(unicode, ascii, unicodeBytes); // Convert the new byte[] into a char[] and then into a string. // This is a slightly different approach to converting to illustrate // the use of GetCharCount/GetChars. char[] asciiChars =newchar[ascii.GetCharCount(asciiBytes, 0, asciiBytes.Length)]; ascii.GetChars(asciiBytes, 0, asciiBytes.Length, asciiChars, 0); string asciiString =newstring(asciiChars); // Display the strings created before and after the conversion. Console.WriteLine("Original string: {0}", unicodeString); Console.WriteLine("Ascii converted string: {0}", asciiString); } } }