c# - Convert a string's character encoding from windows-1252 to utf-8

Question

I had converted a Word Document(docx) to html, the converted html has windows-1252 as its character encoding. In .Net for this 1252 character encoding all the special characters are being displayed as '?'. This html is being displayed in a Rad Editor which displays correctly if the html is in Utf-8 format.

I had tried the following code but no vein

Encoding wind1252 = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);  
Encoding utf8 = Encoding.UTF8;  
byte[] wind1252Bytes = wind1252.GetBytes(strHtml);  
byte[] utf8Bytes = Encoding.Convert(wind1252, utf8, wind1252Bytes);  
char[] utf8Chars = new char[utf8.GetCharCount(utf8Bytes, 0, utf8Bytes.Length)];   
utf8.GetChars(utf8Bytes, 0, utf8Bytes.Length, utf8Chars, 0);  
string utf8String = new string(utf8Chars);

Any suggestions on how to convert the html into UTF-8?

Answer 1

This should do it:

Encoding wind1252 = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);
Encoding utf8 = Encoding.UTF8;  
byte[] wind1252Bytes = wind1252.GetBytes(strHtml);
byte[] utf8Bytes = Encoding.Convert(wind1252, utf8, wind1252Bytes);
string utf8String = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(utf8Bytes);