A common code snippet that I see is something that uses binary data as a String, something like: String myHash = "abcd\xD800"; String encrypted = Encoding.Default.GetString(byte[] encryptedData); encryptor.bytes[] = Encoding.Default.GetBytes("my key...

I was playing with code pages and ran into an interesting case: Code Page 21027 - Ext Alpha Lowercase. This code page has some interesting behavior. It looks like a Japaneses EBCDIC code page, however its kind of "missing" mappings for some characters...