Finding a character unicode in C#

Hi,

I am trying to map characters in a c# string to a bitmap font in a texture. To do that, I resort to `System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes ( myString )`. I then loop through all bytes and each byte value points to a set of uv coordinates in the texture. Everything works fine but for characters outside of the ASCII range.

I have tried to make my method a bit more subtle by getting each char of the string then getting the bytes for each of those chars. But I always get the first byte to 63 ( unicode for the question mark, I believe ) and a 0 for all non-ASCII characters in the string. I have put up the following method to illustrate my point :

 public void TestGetUnicode () {
         
     string s = "";
         
     s += "Byte Count : " + System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetByteCount ( "è" );
         
     s += " Bytes : ";
     for ( int i = 0; i < System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetByteCount ( "è" ); i++ )
         s += System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes ( "è" )[i] + " ";
         
     Debug.Log ( s );
             
 }

Here is the result in the debug console :

Byte Count : 2 Bytes : 63 63

I have tried to save my files to every encoding available in MonoDevelop and replaced the call to the default encoding with all encodings described on the msdn .net documentation. Whatever the encoding I use to save the file and get the bytes from the string, I only get combinations of 0 and 63.

Does anybody know how to properly get the bytes from a c# string ?

Thanks in advance.