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On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 1:41 PM Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
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 = "" ? 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

It very well could be. I'll look into this tomorrow. Thanks Sean!

Russ