How can i print an utf8 encoded character?

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Hello, i need a help here. I have a string which corresponds to an utf8 encoded character in its hexadecimal form. for example:

C#

String s="c2b5";

Which is the character
µ
in the unicode table in its hex form. Can anyone tell me how can i print this char in a console or a file?
Thank you.

UPDATE:
This doesn't work, compiler error.

C#

String mystr = "\u"+"03a3";
Byte[] myb = utf8.GetBytes(mystr);
String dec = utf8.GetString(myb);
Console.WriteLine(dec);

Although this works

C#

String mystr = "\u03a3";
Byte[] myb = utf8.GetBytes(mystr);
String dec = utf8.GetString(myb);
Console.WriteLine(dec);

Posted 24-Oct-11 7:47am

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Updated 24-Oct-11 8:33am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Oct-11 14:43pm

You're getting bytes of string with hex number. Why? You asked about character itself. Convert it to character first.
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-24T08:40:00

No! The Greek µ is "03BC"! This is:

C#

char ch = '\x03bc';
//or
ch = '\u03bc';

//or
const string MuString = "03BC";
ushort utf16 = ushort.Parse(MuString, System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber);
ch = (char)utf16;

Now, you can write it into the file, but make sure the file is created with the encoding of one of Unicode UTF formats. For example:

C#

using (System.IO.StreamWriter writer = new System.IO.StreamWriter(fileName, true, System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8)) {
    //...
    writer.Write(ch);
    //...
}

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.streamwriter.aspx[^].

—SA