Re: C#/NLua + string.pack - Binary Message Not What I Expect

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Russell Haley once stated:
> Hi,
> 
> My project is a serial port console written in C# that uses an embedded Lua
> interpreter via NLua. I have a lua script to send a binary messages out the
> serial port. I am using string.pack to create the message. My lua script:
> 
> local bytes = {0x5AA5}

  [ snip ]

> My C# WriteRemote is simple:
>         public void WriteRemote(string data, bool appendLineEnding = true)
>         {
>             if(_logging)
>             {
>                 _scriptLog.WriteLine(data);
>             }
>             data = appendLineEnding ? data + _lineEnding : data;
>             byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data);
                                      ^^^^

The string you are generating, 0xA5,0x5A, is not a valid UTF-8 string. 
Could that perhaps be the issue?

  -spc