"Eric Cadwell" <ecadwell@ns.insight.com> wrote in message
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> We are encoding strings using XMLElement:
>
> private string XMLEncode(string val)
> {
> if(val.Length == 0)
> return string.Empty;
> XmlElement element = xmldoc.CreateElement("E");
> element.InnerText = val;
>
> return element.InnerXml;
> }
>
> The question is what encoding is being used to translate the string? What
is
> the default encoding for XMLDocument? Is the resultant string in UTF-8,
> Unicode, etc...?
> Our server side components require ISO-8859-1 so I am now trying to
convert
> from one char set to another like this:
>
> private string XMLEncode(string val)
> {
> if(val.Length == 0)
> return string.Empty;
> element = xmldoc.CreateElement("E");
> element.InnerText = val;
>
> string temp = element.InnerXml;
> byte[] wrong = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(temp);
> byte[] right = System.Text.Encoding.Convert(Encoding.Unicode,
> Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1"), wrong);
> string done = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetString(right);
>
> return done;
> }
>
> Am I correct in assuming that the encoder is Unicode? Is this a time bomb?
> It appears to be working correctly - just seems like a hack!
>
> Thanks;
> -Eric
>
>

"Dare Obasanjo [MSFT]" <dareo@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> The encoding of all strings in the .NET Framework is UTF-16. This means
that
> your XMLEncode method is returning a UTF-16 string. The correct thing to
do
> in this case would be to save the XmlDocument to a stream and specify the
> encoding you want on the stream writer.
>
> --
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>
> "Eric Cadwell" <ecadwell@ns.insight.com> wrote in message
> news:OviECg3PEHA.3732@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > We are encoding strings using XMLElement:
> >
> > private string XMLEncode(string val)
> > {
> > if(val.Length == 0)
> > return string.Empty;
> > XmlElement element = xmldoc.CreateElement("E");
> > element.InnerText = val;
> >
> > return element.InnerXml;
> > }
> >
> > The question is what encoding is being used to translate the string?
What
> is
> > the default encoding for XMLDocument? Is the resultant string in UTF-8,
> > Unicode, etc...?
> > Our server side components require ISO-8859-1 so I am now trying to
> convert
> > from one char set to another like this:
> >
> > private string XMLEncode(string val)
> > {
> > if(val.Length == 0)
> > return string.Empty;
> > element = xmldoc.CreateElement("E");
> > element.InnerText = val;
> >
> > string temp = element.InnerXml;
> > byte[] wrong = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(temp);
> > byte[] right = System.Text.Encoding.Convert(Encoding.Unicode,
> > Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1"), wrong);
> > string done = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetString(right);
> >
> > return done;
> > }
> >
> > Am I correct in assuming that the encoder is Unicode? Is this a time
bomb?
> > It appears to be working correctly - just seems like a hack!
> >
> > Thanks;
> > -Eric
> >
> >
>
>