How to save string to text file with ASCII encoding in Windows store apps/WinRT?

Question

I am trying hard to save some string to a text file with ASCII encoding in a win8 app project. Below is some of the code snippet:

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Answer 1

As far as I know, Windows Store apps cannot use non-Unicode encodings. But if your string only contains characters with codepoints between U+00 and U+7F (0..127) then UTF8 and ASCII are identical, because UTF8 was designed to be ASCII-compatible.

So, just encode it as UTF8 and decode as ASCII.