Encoding UTF8 string to ISO-8859-1 String (VB.NET)

Question

I need to convert UTF8 string to ISO-8859-1 string using VB.NET.

Any example?

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Answer 1

Dont know if this should be posted here but i made a small function in C# to check if a string support the target encoding type.

Hope it can be of any help...

/// 

/// Function for checking if a string can support the target encoding type
/// 
/// The text to check
/// The target encoding
/// True if the encoding supports the string and false if it does not
public bool SupportsEncoding(string text, Encoding targetEncoding)
{
    var btext = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(text);
    var bencodedtext = Encoding.Convert(Encoding.Unicode, targetEncoding, btext);

    var checktext = targetEncoding.GetString(bencodedtext);
    return checktext == text;
}

//Call the function demo with ISO-8859-1/Latin-1
if (SupportsEncoding("some text...", Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1")))
{
    //The encoding is supported
}
else
{
    //The encoding is not supported 
}