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

user_447105 0
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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?

iso-8859-1 utf-8 encoding .net c#
9 Answers

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);
user_87990

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.

user_2185890

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);
Manu_21330

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?

user_2670

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"
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