Convert Greek Characters to Terminal Hex Font

Question

I need to Convert greek characters as charmap terminal font hex value.

Example how can i convert

string test="ΞΥΔΙ";

to hex value "\0x8D.......and so on.

If will Convert from String to Hex i'm getting wrong hex value

 byte[] ba = Encoding.GetEncoding(1253).GetBytes("ΨΓΣΦ");
        var hexString = BitConverter.ToString(ba);
        MessageBox.Show(hexString);

Example from character 'Ξ' i'm getting 0xCE

Answer 1

You are close:

1. Change Code Page from Windows (Win-1253) to MS DOS one (737)
2. If you want to see codes represented as a string, I suggest using Linq and String.Join

Something like this:

 // Terminal uses MS DOS Code Page which is 737 (not Win-1253)
 byte[] ba = Encoding.GetEncoding(737).GetBytes("ΞΥΔΙ"); 

 // Let's use Linq to print out a test
 var hexString = string.Join(" ", ba.Select(c => $"0x{(int)c:X2}"));

 Console.Write(hexString);

Outcome:

 0x8D 0x93 0x83 0x88

Please, notice that Ξ has 0x8D code.