Encoding UTF8 string to ISO-8859-1 String (VB.NET)

Question

I need to convert UTF8 string to ISO-8859-1 string using VB.NET.

Any example?

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Answer 1

The encoding ISO-8859-1 is more commonly called Latin-1. You can get this encoding by doing the following

Dim latin1 = Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(&H6FAF)

The full conversion can be done by the following

Public Function ConvertUtf8ToLatin1(Dim bytes As Byte()) As Bytes()
  Dim latin1 = Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(&H6FAF)
  Return Encoding.Convert(Encoding.UTF8, latin1, bytes)
End Function

EDIT

As Jon pointed out, it may be easier for people to remember the decimal number 28591 rather than the hex number &H6FAF.