<t>If you already have a byte array then you will need to know what type of encoding was used to make it into that byte array.<br/>
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For example, if the byte array was created like this:<br/>
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byte[] bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(someString);<br/>
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You will need to turn it back into a string like this:<br/>
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string someString = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes);<br/>
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If you can find in the code you inherited, the encoding used to create the byte array then you should be set.<br/>
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Besides ASCII, the [System.Text.Encoding](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.text.encoding?view=net-8.0) class also includes `UTF8`, `Unicode` (for UTF-16), and `UTF32`. A full list is in the docs.</t>
