Release build of GetEncoding("ISO-8859-8") give "Encoding 28598 data could not be found" error

Question

Why does this line GetEncoding("ISO-8859-8").GetBytes(text); raise this exception: Encoding 28598 data could not be found. Make sure you have correct international codeset assembly installed and enabled.

But in release build only?? (Xamarin Forms running the Android build).

And how can I work around it. It is code based on this question, and here is my function (which is in a PCL library):

    public static string RemoveDiacritics(this string text)
    {
        if (text == null)
            return string.Empty;

        byte[] tempBytes;
        tempBytes = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-8").GetBytes(text);
        string asciiStr = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(tempBytes, 0, tempBytes.Length);

        return asciiStr;
    }
}

Silly question, but is it possible that the Debug version is using a local copy of the DLL? — Joshua Drake, Feb 15 '17 at 18:42
On what platform does it fail? I just tried with VS2015 on Windows 7 (PCL in C#, console project to use it in VB) and got no error. — Andrew Morton, Feb 15 '17 at 18:44
Have you seen [No data available for encoding 1252 - Xamarin](http://stackoverflow.com/a/37780366/1115360)? — Andrew Morton, Feb 16 '17 at 08:58

allanes · Answer 1 · 2017-06-23T12:08:18.783

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I solved this issue selecting Mideast under Project Properties: Project Properties -> Android Options -> Additional supported encodings: "Mideast"

edited Jun 23 '17 at 12:08

answered Jun 16 '17 at 10:40

allanes

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Please explain the steps in writing. – Souvik Ghosh Jun 16 '17 at 10:48

Release build of GetEncoding("ISO-8859-8") give "Encoding 28598 data could not be found" error

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