WCF Receive Reply in UTF-8

Question

I’m consuming a Webservice by means of a Console application.

I receive an object as a return and in this object I need to read an attribute called ReturnMessage.

But the text is disfigured, the same is presented as follows "The ³digo KHAN of Security§the sent.". To fix the problem, I created a method that formats the string passed to UTF-8, follows the code below.

 byte[] bytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(texto);
 string textoFormatado = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes);   
 return textoFormatado;

After formatting the message is as follows "Sent Security Code Invalid"

My question is, there’s no way I’ve ever received this feedback on UTF-8 without having to do this conversion?

I figured I could parameterize something in app config. as I did below, but it did not work.

Does anyone have any idea if this is possible?

Answer 1

Try it from here:

Encoding iso = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
Encoding utf8 = Encoding.UTF8;
byte[] utfBytes = utf8.GetBytes(Message);
byte[] isoBytes = Encoding.Convert(utf8, iso, utfBytes);
string msg = iso.GetString(isoBytes);

Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1922199/c-sharp-convert-string-from-utf-8-to-iso-8859-1-latin1-h