Encoding.ASCII not available in Silverlight is there a alternative?

Question

I have the following line of code for a Windows forms application:

return Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(chars.ToArray());

This line worked fine, but

Answer 1

Probably using Encoding.UTF8 will solve your problem, but you can always use the Silverlight Encoding Generator and get any encoding you'd like!

Answer 2

Try using Encoding.UTF8 - Silverlight is unicode only.