Encoding ASCII changes right and left double quotes to question mark

Question

So say we have this in body of an email message:

body =  “Hi John,  thank you”;

when encoding that into

Message.BodyEncoding = Encoding.ASCII;

the return is ?Hi John, thank you?

how can I avoid this? I used other encodings from System Encoding but they do not resolve the problem.

Of course a work around would be to replace the right and left quotes with simple double quotes...

Can you tell me an alternative?

Answer 1

The answer was:

Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1");