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Lack of documentation for encoding fallbacks
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Description
### Description
Hi
neither me not copilot found any documentation why the following program (in particular the GetBytes part) does what it does and if there are other character replacements. I think there should be a full table of character replacements applied somewhere documented or easily retrievable in code.
```C#
using System;
using System.Text;
namespace EncodingFun1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine(Encoding.Latin1.GetString(Encoding.Latin1.GetBytes("© Š š Ž ž Œ œ Ÿ €")));
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
}
```
Copilot asked me to report this here. So I did.
Best Regards
Marc
### Reproduction Steps
```C#
Encoding.Latin1.GetBytes("Š")[0]; // returns 83 and not 63. This is fine, but needs documentation.
```
### Expected behavior
documented behavior
### Actual behavior
undocumented behavior
### Regression?
no.
### Known Workarounds
guessing.
### Configuration
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### Other information
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