[DiptiJain]

Hi,

I am developing an test application to read the data coming on serial port sent by the pabx.
It is working fine. But, for some reason , i don't know why, some invalid characters are coming in the data, something like '?'
On hyperterminal i can see data in the following format
02/06/10 08:52AM 100 01 0975895420 00:00'10
But in my application it comes in the following format
0??06??0?08:5?AM????00?0??09?5?95??0?????????????????????00:00'??????????????????

Please help me.
Thanks in advance.

[raziel_]

hi i think it is the encoding. i read somewhere that if the character is unknown the byte is replaced with H3F(the question mark). i find the article:
http://social.msdn.m...d4-7db0786036e5

you can change the encoding like so:

        Dim strTmpRsInput As String = String.Empty
        Dim bytRecivedBuffer() As Byte

                    Com.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("Windows-1251")
                    strTmpRsInput = strTmpRsInput & Com.ReadExisting
                    bytRecivedBuffer = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("Windows-1251").GetBytes(strTmpRsInput)

that is if you want to use cp1251 encoding.
hope it helps you