Re: Transmitting a 'char' array thru serial port in new C# 2005 Ex

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halukg <halukg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I found the current encoding is us-ascii with the following code:
> retval = com.Encoding.EncodingName.ToString();

Right, that makes sense.

> I dont know how to change this encoding to unicode or iso-8859. Could you
> please show me how to do this?

com.Encoding = new Encoding(28591);

will give you ISO-8859-1. However, I would still *strongly* recommend
that you don't try to use this to write binary data.

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