[Darith1974]

I have a string builder consisting binary characters e.g. 101010101. How do i convert this to a unicode string,RetreivedMessage is my string builder pulled from a image; i have been experimenting with the above code but it always returns the same value?

string FinalRetreivedMessage  = RetreivedMessage.ToString();
            //Byte[] buf = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(RetreivedMessage.ToString());
            Byte[] buf = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(RetreivedMessage.ToString());
            string result = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(buf);
            //String result = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(buf);
            StringBuilder r2 = new StringBuilder();
            //foreach (Byte b in Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(FinalRetreivedMessage))
           // {
           //    r2.Append(Convert.ToString());
            //}

[Momerath]

Strings are made of characters, so their binary representation (your GetBytes) is going to be the values of the characters, not the bits 1 and 0. You'll need to convert the text to a binary value and then do the conversion.

int v = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 32; i++) {
    v = v * 2 + (FinalRetreivedMessage[i] == '0' ? 0 : 1);
}

This will convert a 32 'bit' value stored in the string into the integer value it represents. You can then convert that to Unicode. Change the loop limit to 8 or 16 if you are using 8 or 16 bit unicode.

[Skydiver]

Unicode's Basic Multilingual Plane is at least 16 bits, so you can't use just 8 bits.

I think what Momerath meant is that 8 bits is enough to get the encoding characters of UTF-8, but remember that .NET keeps things in memory as as UTF-16, so you'll need to convert from UTF-8 to UTF-16 at the very least.

[AdamSpeight2008]

UTF-7 is 7 bits.

[Skydiver]

True, but the UTF-7 bits still need to be decoded into a 16 bit value that CLR can use internally.

[Darith1974]

Thanks for the updates everybody; i have not worked on this project in the last few days, hope to update this thread soon.

[Darith1974]

string FinalRetreivedMessage = RetreivedMessage.ToString();
            int count = FinalRetreivedMessage.Length / 8;
            System.Text.UTF8Encoding encoding = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
            UTF8Encoding enc = new UTF8Encoding();
            var StringBytes = new byte[count];
            for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
                StringBytes[i] = Convert.ToByte(FinalRetreivedMessage.Substring(i * 8, 8), 2);
            //StringBytes[i] = encoding.GetBytes(FinalRetreivedMessage.Substring(i * 8, 8), 2);
            string FinalResult = enc.GetString(StringBytes);

The above code solved my issue