How to find Encoding for 1251 codepage

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I need to create System.Encoding for 1251 codepage.

On my russian Windows I use

Encoding encoding = Encoding.Default

I am afraid this will produce different results depending on Windows

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding.getencoding.aspx — bzlm, Oct 19 '10 at 11:15

score 44 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 26 '15 at 18:07

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Correct, you will get different results on different machines if you use Encoding.Default.

If you want a specific codepage, you can use Encoding.GetEncoding:

Encoding encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("windows-1251");

edited Jul 26 '15 at 18:07

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answered Oct 19 '10 at 11:16

Michael Madsen

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Yeap, I should have just RTFM. Another option is specifying codepage by name instead of number as you did. In my case that would be windows-1251 – Captain Comic Oct 19 '10 at 11:22

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 06 '17 at 13:17

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For .NET Core you also need to reference the System.Text.Encoding.CodePages package and then use Encoding.RegisterProvider:

Encoding.RegisterProvider(CodePagesEncodingProvider.Instance);

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 08 '20 at 05:53

The .NET Framework/.NET Core supports a large number of character encodings and code pages. To retrieve an encoding that is present in the .NET Framework/.NET Core pass the EncodingProvider object to the Encoding.RegisterProvider method to make the encodings supplied by the EncodingProvider object available to the common language runtime. Microsoft Document Reference

System.Text.Encoding.RegisterProvider(System.Text.CodePagesEncodingProvider.Instance);

How to find Encoding for 1251 codepage

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