Encoding issue of Euro sign

Question

i have this code when i run it, it give me "?" instead of "€" (euro sign). Can anyone tell me what i can do to fix it.

    string Message = "Hello $ € £";
    Encoding iso = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
    Encoding utf8 = Encoding.UTF8;

    byte[] utfBytes = utf8.GetBytes(Message);
    byte[] isoBytes = Encoding.Convert(utf8, iso, utfBytes);
    string msg = iso.GetString(isoBytes);
    Console.WriteLine(msg);

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 14 '12 at 06:22

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Please refer to the URL http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/euro.html it shows all methods for encoding.

answered Nov 14 '12 at 06:22

Nilam Doctor

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 14 '12 at 06:31

string Message = "Hello $ € £";
Console.OutputEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
Console.WriteLine(Message);

I just confirmed this works, but you also need to use the right font for your console (for example I tried "Lucida Console" which is OK. also, you also need to make sure your source code (.cs file or whatever) is in utf8 encoding.

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 14 '12 at 06:34

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The euro sign is not a part of the ISO-8859-1 character set: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1#Codepage_layout (the pound sign does appear there)

answered Nov 14 '12 at 06:34

Hans Keﬆing

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Encoding issue of Euro sign

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