קידוד עברית בדוט נט As a .Net developer you are not bothered by trivialities such as character encoding, since the framework uses Unicode by default. But what happens when you need to encode your text so someone else (non .Net) will decrypt it, and that someone uses a single byte per character? Let's start with few definitions: ASCII - a standard that uses a single byte for each character, but only defines 128 possible symbols. There is no such thing as "Hebrew ASCII". ANSI - Same idea...