Relation between .NET Encoding and Characterset

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What's relation between CharacterSet here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms709353(VS.85).aspx and ascii encoding here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.asciiencoding.getbytes(VS.71).aspx

Accepted Answer

ANSI is the current Windows ANSI code page, equivalent to Encoding.Default.

OEM is the current OEM code page typically used by console applications.

You can get this using:

```
Encoding.GetEncoding(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.OEMCodePage)
```

In a console application, the OEM encoding will also be available using

```
Console.OutputEncoding
```

Relation between .NET Encoding and Characterset

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