c# - System.NotSupportedException: No data is available for encoding 1252

Question

I'm working with a Trust Commerce Tutorial on how to generate a payment token that will allow customers to use the TC Trustee Host payment form. I was given an example on how to retrieve this token by their dev team.

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;

/** @class TCToken
 * An example class for generating a TrustCommerce Trustee Token
 */
public class TCToken
{

    public static void Main(string [] args)
    {
        string custid = "123456";
        string password = "XXXXXX";
        try {
            // Adapted from http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/dotnetWebRequest/dotnetWebRequest.htm
            string gateway_post_address = "https://vault.trustcommerce.com/trustee/token.php";
            HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(gateway_post_address);

            // A sixty second timeout.
            req.Timeout = 60000;

            string post_data = "custid=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(custid) +
                                "&password=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(password);
            
            req.Method = "POST";
            byte [] buf = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).GetBytes(post_data);
            req.ContentLength = buf.Length;
            req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

            Stream s = req.GetRequestStream();
            s.Write(buf, 0, buf.Length);
            s.Close();

            HttpWebResponse rep = (HttpWebResponse) req.GetResponse();
            Encoding enc = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);
            StreamReader rs = new StreamReader(rep.GetResponseStream(), enc);

            string token = rs.ReadToEnd();

            Console.WriteLine(token);

            rep.Close();
            rs.Close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Console.WriteLine(e);
        }
    }
}

I made a new console application in visual studio, copied this code, and replaced the username and password with the correct credentials. When I try to run this, I get the following error in the console.

System.NotSupportedException: No data is available for encoding 1252. For information on defining a custom encoding, see the documentation for the Encoding.RegisterProvider method. at System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(Int32 codepage) at TCToken.Program.Main(String[] args) in C:Usersxxxxsource eposTCTokenTCTokenProgram.cs:line 29

I've tried to google this error and most of the responses are a little above my understanding. I'm certainly not a C# expert.

Answer 1

.NET Core supports only ASCII, ISO-8859-1 and Unicode encodings, whereas .NET Framework supports much more.

However, .NET Core can be extended to support additional encodings like Windows-1252, Shift-JIS, GB2312 by registering the CodePagesEncodingProvider from the System.Text.Encoding.CodePages NuGet package.

After the NuGet package is installed the following steps as described in the documentation for the CodePagesEncodingProvider class must be done to register the provider:

1. Add a reference to the System.Text.Encoding.CodePages.dll assembly to your project.
2. Retrieve a CodePagesEncodingProvider object from the static Instance property.
3. Pass the CodePagesEncodingProvider object to the Encoding.RegisterProvider method.