How to get Unicode characters from ISO-8859-6 data?

Question

I have some data encoded in ISO-8859-6, which I am reading from a bar-code scanner using a serial port. How do I map this ISO-8859-6 data into Unicode characters?

Answer 1

Use System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding() to get a System.Text.Encoding object for ISO-8859-6, either

System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-6")

Or

System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(28596)

And then you can pass your encoded ISO-8859-6 bytes to the object's GetString() or GetChars() method.