encoding problem

hi,

I'm working on application that retrieves emails from POP mail account,

The probleme is this:

If have a message with special caracteres like "e e a", all what I get after retrieving the message is " " in the place of these caracters.

The message was encoded with "ISO-8895-1"

Check this code:
//sTemp has a ligne of the message
Encoding srcEnc = Encoding.ASCII;
byte[] srcData = srcEnc.GetBytes(sTemp); //the source data turned to byte array
Encoding dstEnc = Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1");
byte[] dstData = Encoding.Convert(srcEnc, dstEnc, srcData);
sTemp = dstEnc.GetString(dstData);

the final result is the same whitout this code, all caracteres (e e a) turns to " " .

When I check srcData.Equals(dstData) it gives me a false message, which means that the two buffer are diffirent.

hope you help me.

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encoding problem

Simon Morris

The problem is with srcEnc.GetBytes(sTemp);

You're telling the framework to convert a Unicode string to bytes using ASCII encoding. Only the Unicode characters that overlap in ASCII will be encoded; all others will be replaced with ' '. Try this instead:

byte[] srcData = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(sTemp);
byte[] dstData = Encoding.Convert(Encoding.Unicode,
Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1"), srcData);
encoding problem

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