title: how to send unicode character with serial port in C#?
body: <p>how can I send unicode character(16bit) to serial port in C#? Data bit rate for serial is maximum is 8 bit and I need to send 16 bit character.</p>
  
  <p>Edit
  When I send 'ş', it is sent as '_' </p>
  
  <pre><code>byte[] bt = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes("ş");
  string str = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bt);
  serialport.write(str);
  </code></pre>