How to convert byte[] to String with no encoding, no loss of data

Question

I have an array of bytes. The 8-bit value of each byte is what I want as the characters in my String. You can think of my 8-bit values as ASCII, ANSI, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, daily temperature readings, distance in inches from a point on a line, or whatever you want. It's irrelevant.

When I'm done. the char at position N in my String should have the same value as the byte at position N. That is, the high-order 8 bits should be 0 and the low order 8 bits should be the same as the source byte.

What Encoding do I use that simply maps bytes to chars with no change?

Answer 1

For this requirement, I would dispense with encodings, because I don't know the details of what they do, and just convert the bytes myself.

string Convert(byte[] data)
{
    char[] characters = data.Select(b => (char)b).ToArray();
    return new string(characters);
}