How to convert UTF-8 byte[] to string?

Question

I have a byte[] array that is loaded from a file that I happen to known contains UTF-8.

In some debugging code, I need to convert it to a string. Is

Answer 1

hier is a result where you didnt have to bother with encoding. I used it in my network class and send binary objects as string with it.

        public static byte[] String2ByteArray(string str)
        {
            char[] chars = str.ToArray();
            byte[] bytes = new byte[chars.Length * 2];

            for (int i = 0; i < chars.Length; i++)
                Array.Copy(BitConverter.GetBytes(chars[i]), 0, bytes, i * 2, 2);

            return bytes;
        }

        public static string ByteArray2String(byte[] bytes)
        {
            char[] chars = new char[bytes.Length / 2];

            for (int i = 0; i < chars.Length; i++)
                chars[i] = BitConverter.ToChar(bytes, i * 2);

            return new string(chars);
        }