Convert unicode string to CE 1250

Question

Hi I work on Windows Phone 8 application and wanna print some strings on POS printer (datecs-450). Printer is set to CE 1250 code page. Text is unicode. When I print some characters (šcžcd) a get following characters: † á-ž †ž- ç... How to convert unicode character(string) to wp 1250 in windows phone 8?

Vulpes · Answer

I've looked into this some more and it appears that WP7 and WP8 only support the UTF-8 and Unicode encodings. They don't even support Windows-1252. Unless your printer can use UTF-8 as an alternative to Windows-1250 the only thing I can suggest is that you write your own encoding class. There's a tool here which can automate the process so I'd give it a try: http://www.hardcodet.net/2010/03/silverlight-text-encoding-class-generator

Goran Ristic · Answer

Thanks a lot. It's work.

Goran Ristic · Answer

Now I get this error: 1250 is not supported encoding name. Parameter name: name

Vulpes · Answer

Well you should be able to get it into a byte array and then print that. Try: using System.Text; // ... string s = šž; // or whatever Encoding CE1250 = Encoding.GetEncoding(1250); byte[] bytes = CE1250.GetBytes(s);