conversion of text to ascii text

[srikanth2321]

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?

[C#Jaap]

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

[srikanth2321]

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]

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]

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.:(