using System; using System.IO; using System.Text; class Test { public static void Main() { using (StreamWriter output = new StreamWriter("practice.txt")) { // Create and write a string containing the symbol for Pi. string srcString = "Area = u03A0r^2"; // Convert the UTF-16 encoded source string to UTF-8 and ASCII. byte[] utf8String = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(srcString); byte[] asciiString = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(srcString); // Write the UTF-8 and ASCII encoded byte arrays. output.WriteLine("UTF-8 Bytes: {0}", BitConverter.ToString(utf8String)); output.WriteLine("ASCII Bytes: {0}", BitConverter.ToString(asciiString)); // Convert UTF-8 and ASCII encoded bytes back to UTF-16 encoded // string and write. output.WriteLine("UTF-8 Text : {0}", Encoding.UTF8.GetString(utf8String)); output.WriteLine("ASCII Text : {0}", Encoding.ASCII.GetString(asciiString)); Console.WriteLine(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(utf8String)); Console.WriteLine(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(asciiString)); } } }