Encoding.ASCII not available in Silverlight is there a alternative?

Question

I have the following line of code for a Windows forms application:

return Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(chars.ToArray());

This line worked fine, but today I was trying my code on the Windows Phone/Silverlight framework and the:

Encoding.ASCII

Library does not exist there. Is there any (simple) way to do the same thing but with a Silverlight library?

Have a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4022281/asciiencoding-in-windows-phone-7 — gbanfill, Apr 04 '12 at 12:16
Did you see [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4022281/asciiencoding-in-windows-phone-7) solution? It looks like there is an easy way to achieve it. cheers, — josemiguel.torres, Apr 04 '12 at 13:00

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '12 at 12:15

5

Try using Encoding.UTF8 - Silverlight is unicode only.

answered Apr 04 '12 at 12:15

Chriseyre2000

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 04 '12 at 13:25

0

Probably using Encoding.UTF8 will solve your problem, but you can always use the Silverlight Encoding Generator and get any encoding you'd like!

answered Apr 04 '12 at 13:25

Pedro Lamas

Encoding.GetEncoding("ASCII") will throw an error though – Thomas Hagström Feb 03 '15 at 13:39

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