using System;

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public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

        Console.WriteLine("Encode a String Using Alternate Character Encoding\nEduardo Isaac Ballesteros Muñoz\n");

        CharacterEncoding();

    }

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    public static void CharacterEncoding()

    {

        //Create and write a string containing the Pi math symbol

        string srcString = "Area = \u03A0r^2";

        System.Console.WriteLine("Source Text: " + srcString);

        //Write the UTF-16 encoded bytes of the source string

        byte[] utf16String = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(srcString);

        System.Console.WriteLine("UTF-16: {0}", System.BitConverter.ToString(utf16String));

        //Convert the UTF-16 encoded source string to UTF-8 and ASCII

        byte[] utf8String = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(srcString);

        byte[] asciiString = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(srcString);

        //Write the UTF-8 and and ASCII encoded byte arrays

        System.Console.WriteLine("UTF-8: {0}", System.BitConverter.ToString(utf8String));

        System.Console.WriteLine("ASCII: {0}", System.BitConverter.ToString(asciiString));

        //Convert UTF-8 and ASCII encoded bytes back to UTF-16

        System.Console.WriteLine("UTF-8: {0}", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(utf8String));

        System.Console.WriteLine("ASCII: {0}", System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(asciiString));

    }

}