I have this mapping in my C# application

string [,] unicode2Ascii = { { "ஹ", "\x86" } };

ஹ - is the unicode value for a tamil literal "ஹ". This is the raw hex literal for the unicode value saved by MS Word as a byte sequence. I am trying to map these unicode value "strings" to a hex value under 255 (so as to accommodate non-unicode supported systems).

I trying to use string.replace like this:

S = S.replace(unicode2Ascii[0,0], unicode2Ascii[0,1]);

However the resultant ouput has a ? instead of the actual hex 0x86 stored. Any pointer on how I could set the encoding for the second element of that array to something like windows-1252?

Or is there a better way to do this conversion?

thanks in advance