convert window 1256 Arabic encoding to Iran System encoding standard

Question

hello my application reads a text written in the windows 1256 arabic encoding and then sends that string to an electronic scale. scale can only understand Iran system standard encoding I don't know how to convert windows 1256 encoded text it to Iran system standard encoding. thanks in advance. Hany.

Vulpes · Answer

Unfortunately the Iran System encoding standard doesn't appear to be supported by .NET's Encoding class : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding.aspx but is described in Wikipedia here together with the unicode code-points of its characters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_System_encoding_standard Someone's tried to create GetBytes and GetString methods for it in this Code Project article: http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/272928/iranian-system-encoding-standard The Windows 1256-encoding which is of course supported by .NET is described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1256 I know next to nothing about Arabic or Persian scripts but there appears to be a considerable difference between the two in the 128-255 character region. I think you'll have to try and write your own mapping between the two but it's not going to be easy :(