SerialPort encoding - how do I get 8 bit ASCII?

Question

I\'m having a problem with a program that communicates over a serial port. One of the characters it must send and receive is the degree symbol, ASCII 0xBF. It\'s been working fi

Answer 1

System.Text.ASCIIEncoding isn't the right encoding to use for 8-bit communication. Instead use e.g. the "ISO 8859-1 Latin 1; Western European (ISO)" code page:

port.Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding(28591);