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copied!<p>Two clarifications on the previous answers:</p> <p>There is no <code>Encoding.GetText</code> method (unless it was introduced specifically for the WP7 framework). The method should presumably be <code>Encoding.GetString</code>.</p> <p>The <code>Encoding.GetString</code> method takes a <code>byte[]</code> parameter, not a <code>string</code>. All strings in .NET are internally represented as UTF-16; there is no way of having a “string in ISO-8859-1 format”. Thus, you must be careful how you <em>read</em> your source (file, network), rather than how you process your string. </p> <p>For example, to read from a text file encoded in ISO-8859-1, you could use:</p> <pre><code>string text = File.ReadAllText(path, Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1")); </code></pre> <p>To save to a text file encoded in UTF-8, you could use:</p> <pre><code>File.WriteAllText(path, text, Encoding.UTF8); </code></pre> <p><strong>Reply</strong> to comment:</p> <p>Yes. You can use <code>Encoding.GetString</code> to decode your byte array (assuming it contains character values for text under a particular encoding) into a <code>string</code>, and <code>Encoding.GetBytes</code> to convert your <code>string</code> back into a byte array (possibly of a different encoding), as demonstrated in the other answers. </p> <p>The concept of “encoding” relates to how byte sequences (be they a <code>byte[]</code> array in memory or the content of a file on disk) are to be interpreted. The <code>string</code> class is oblivious to the encoding that the text was read from, or should be saved to.</p>

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