Problem with character sets and .Net

[en3rgy]

i decide to write a plugin for Smartie using vb.net when i use demo plugins i have a problem with non ascii characters (Cyrillic in my case)

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    Public Function function1(ByVal param1 As String, ByVal param2 As String) As String
       
        Return param1 

    End Function

i read about .net using only Unicode as strings and Smartie use ascii 8bit charset
so PC display show some garbage characters x2 because the unicode

i dont see way to make vb.net return needed string format and thinking it is impossible using string

is it possible function to return other type data instead of string ??? i try byte() dont work

[mattcro]

I think this is what I tried doing a while ago in VB.NET with no luck. Have a look at the System.Text.Encoding class. I don't know if it can actually do what we need, though...