2010/11/5 Greg Keogh <[email protected]>: > Folks, I have a pair of utility methods that I wrote in Framework 1.0 that > "escapes" and "unescapes" non-ASCII strings so I can roundtrip them via > ASCII. So the string "ABC123ΑΒΓ" (last 3 chars are Greek) becomes > "ABC123\u0391\u0392\u0393" and I can later reverse it. This ancient manual > code must be redundant now. Is there a way of doing this in the FCL now? I > can't quickly find one.
The typical approach here would be to convert to base64: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.convert.tobase64string.aspx > Likewise, I'd like to be able to roundtrip arbitrary Unicode string via > encoding="ascii" XML with high characters converted to &# entities. I can't > find an automatic way of doing this either. If I save an XDocument in an > ASCII encoded TextWriter the high characters turn into question marks. I don't know about this, but it seems appropriate for the chars to not be converted. I would "guess" that you need to convert them manually, because it's basically just an arbritrary encoding scheme, and I don't see why encoding="ascii" should neccessitate that. That said, there's probably some library or something that does it. Shouldn't be hard to search ... [...] > Greg -- silky http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy -- the joy of being this signature."
