1: private string ConvertAsciiToUnicode(string theAsciiString)
2: {
3: // Create two different encodings.
4: Encoding aAsciiEncoding = Encoding.ASCII;
5: Encoding aUnicodeEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;
6:
7: // Convert the string into a byte[].
8: byte[] aAsciiBytes = aAsciiEncoding.GetBytes(theAsciiString);
9:
10: // Perform the conversion from one encoding to the other.
11: byte[] aUnicodeBytes = Encoding.Convert(aAsciiEncoding, aUnicodeEncoding,
12: aAsciiBytes);
13:
14: // Convert the new byte[] into a char[] and then into a string.
15: char[] aUnicodeChars = new
16: char[aUnicodeEncoding.GetCharCount(aUnicodeBytes, 0, aUnicodeBytes.Length)];
17: aUnicodeEncoding.GetChars(aUnicodeBytes, 0, aUnicodeBytes.Length,
18: aUnicodeChars, 0);
19: string aUnicodeString = new string(aUnicodeChars);
20:
21: return aUnicodeString;
22: }