Sending a string containing special characters through a TcpClient (byte[])

Question

I\'m trying to send a string containing special characters through a TcpClient (byte[]). Here\'s an example:

• Client enters \"amé\" in a textbox
• Client

Answer 1

Never too late to answer a question I think, hope someone will find answers here.

C# uses 16 bit chars, and ASCII truncates them to 8 bit, to fit in a byte. After some research, I found UTF-8 to be the best encoding for special characters.

//data to send via TCP or any stream/file
byte[] string_to_send = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("amé");

//when receiving, pass the array in this to get the string back
string received_string = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetString(message_to_send);