Culture-Sensitive C# Method

using System.Text

public virtual byte[] GetBytes(char[] chars);

public virtual byte[] GetBytes(string s);

public virtual byte[] GetBytes(char[] chars, int index, int count);

public virtual int GetBytes(char* chars, int charCount, byte* bytes, int byteCount)

public abstract int GetBytes(char[] chars, int charIndex, int charCount, byte[] bytes, int byteIndex);

public virtual int GetBytes(string s, int charIndex, int charCount, byte[] bytes, int byteIndex);

Internationalization (I18n) Method Overview

Encodes a set of characters into a sequence of bytes.

For more information see Microsoft's MSDN online documentation.