Converting problem ANSI to UTF8 C#

Question

I have a problem with converting a text file from ANSI to UTF8 in c#. I try to display the results in a browser.

So I have a this text file with many accent characte

Answer 1

When you convert to ASCII you immediately lose all non-English characters (including ones with accent) because ASCII has only 127 (7 bits) of characters.

You do strange manipulation. string in .net is in UTF-16, so once you return string, not byte[] this doesn't matter.

I think you should do: (I guess by ANSI you mean Latin1)

public byte[] Encode(string text)
{
    return Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).GetBytes(text);
}

Since the question was not very clear there is a reasonable remark that you might actually need this one:

public string Decode(byte[] data)
{
    return Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).GetString(data);
}