Re: Convert DOS Cyrillic text to Unicode

From: Nikolay Petrov (johntup2_at_mail.bg)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:23:21 +0300

That was very helpfull.
But I have some problems. Let me first tell you exactly what I want to
achieve.
I've made a simple ASP .NET page with two text boxes and a button.
What I need is, that a user paste DOS cyrillic text (taken from Notepad) in
left text box,
and when he clicks the button, the Converted to Unicode text to appear at
the right box.
So I get the DOS text as String, not as bytes. How should I proceed in this
case?

"Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <Jay_Harlow_MVP@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Nikolay,
> In addition to the other comments
>
> What is the Code Page for DOS Cyrillic? Quickly checking MSDN I think its
> 866, but you need to double check!
>
> You would use Encoding.GetEncoding to get the DOS Cyrillic Encoding
object.
>
> Imports System.Text
>
> Dim cyrillic As Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding(866)
>
> Given an array of Bytes with DOS Cyrillic in it, you would use
> Encoding.GetString to convert to a Unicode String.
>
> Dim bytes() As Byte
> Dim s As String = cyrillic.GetString(bytes)
>
> Given a Unicode String, you would us Encoding.GetBytes to get an array of
> Bytes with DOS cyrillic.
>
> bytes = cyrillic.GetBytes(s)
>
> If your DOS cyrillic is in a Text File you pass the Encoding object to
your
> System.IO reader & writer classes
>
> Dim input As New StreamReader("myCyrillic.txt", cyrillic)
>
> Dim output As New StreamWriter("myCyrillic.txt", False, cyrillic)
>
> For information on Unicode, Encoding, and code pages (such as DOS
Cyrillic)
> see:
>
> http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/unicode.html
>
> One last thing: Once you have a String it is Unicode! Only Byte arrays &
> Streams contain DOS Cyrillic and other character encodings.
>
> Hope this helps
> Jay
>
> "Nikolay Petrov" <johntup2@mail.bg> wrote in message
> news:u8aV5UvcEHA.3632@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > How can I convert DOS cyrillic text to Unicode
> >
> >
>
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