title: How to convert a Unicode character to its ASCII equivalent
body: <p>Here's the problem:</p>
  
  <p>In C# I'm getting information from a legacy ACCESS database. .NET converts the content of the database (in the case of this problem a string) to Unicode before handing the content to me.</p>
  
  <p>How do I convert this Unicode string back to it's ASCII equivalent?</p>
  
  <p><hr>
  <strong>Edit</strong><br>
  Unicode char 710 is indeed MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT. Here's the problem a bit more precise:  </p>
  
  <pre> -> (Extended) ASCII character ê (Extended ASCII 136) was inserted in the database.
   -> Either Access or the reading component in .NET converted this to U+02C6 U+0065
      (MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT + LATIN SMALL LETTER E)
   -> I need the (Extended) ASCII character 136 back.
  </pre>
  
  <p><hr>
  Here's what I've tried (I see now why this did not work...):</p>
  
  <pre><code>string myInput = Convert.ToString(Convert.ToChar(710));
  byte[] asBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(myInput);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But this does not result in 94 but a byte with value 63...<br>
  Here's a new try but it still does not work:</p>
  
  <pre><code>byte[] bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("ê");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><hr>
  <strong>Soltution</strong><br>
  Thanks to both <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/138449/how-to-convert-a-unicode-character-to-its-extended-ascii-equivalent#138579">csgero</a> and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/138449/how-to-convert-a-unicode-character-to-its-extended-ascii-equivalent#138583">bzlm</a> for pointing in the right direction I solved the problem <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/138449/how-to-convert-a-unicode-character-to-its-ascii-equivalent#141816">here</a>.</p>