Vietnamese character in .NET Console Application (UTF-8)
- by DucDigital
Im trying to write down an UTF8 string (Vietnamese) into C# Console but no success. Im running on windows 7.
I tried to use the Encoding class that convert string to char[] to byte[] and then to String, but no help, the string is input directly fron the database.
Here is some example
Tôi tên là Ð?c, cu?c s?ng th?t vui v?
tuy?t v?i
It does not show the special character like : Ð or ?... instead it show up ?, much worse with the Encoding class.
Does anyone can try this out or know about this problem?
Thank you
My code
static void Main(string[] args)
{
XDataContext _new = new XDataContext();
Console.OutputEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("UTF-8");
string srcString = _new.Posts.First().TITLE;
Console.WriteLine(srcString);
// Convert the UTF-16 encoded source string to UTF-8 and ASCII.
byte[] utf8String = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(srcString);
byte[] asciiString = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(srcString);
// Write the UTF-8 and ASCII encoded byte arrays.
Console.WriteLine("UTF-8 Bytes: {0}", BitConverter.ToString(utf8String));
Console.WriteLine("ASCII Bytes: {0}", BitConverter.ToString(asciiString));
// Convert UTF-8 and ASCII encoded bytes back to UTF-16 encoded
// string and write.
Console.WriteLine("UTF-8 Text : {0}", Encoding.UTF8.GetString(utf8String));
Console.WriteLine("ASCII Text : {0}", Encoding.ASCII.GetString(asciiString));
Console.WriteLine(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(utf8String));
Console.WriteLine(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(asciiString));
}
and here is the outstanding output
Nhà báo đi hội báo Xuân
UTF-8 Bytes: 4E-68-C3-A0-20-62-C3-A1-6F-20-C4-91-69-20-68-E1-BB-99-69-20-62-C3-
A1-6F-20-58-75-C3-A2-6E
ASCII Bytes: 4E-68-3F-20-62-3F-6F-20-3F-69-20-68-3F-69-20-62-3F-6F-20-58-75-3F-
6E
UTF-8 Text : Nhà báo đi hội báo Xuân
ASCII Text : Nh? b?o ?i h?i b?o Xu?n
Nhà báo đi hội báo Xuân
Nh? b?o ?i h?i b?o Xu?n
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