C# Converting byte[] into C++ structs (ref thread255433)

[hillman]

Hello, Maestros.
Following on from the posts on creating structs from a byte[].
The methods described there work well. But I seem to have struck a snag that some might find interesting. The C/C++ structs that give problems all have the same issue: they all have at least one field something like this:
char character[25]

There does not appear to be any way to do this in c#. The closest I could get was
fixed sbyte character[25].
This does indeed get filled correctly, but of course with the byte value, not the ascii characters. What certainly doesn't work is
fixed char character[25], because a c/c++ char is not the same as a c# char (good ol unicode).

So my question is: is there a way to define a c/c++ char field[size] in a c# struct, with the result that the c# field holds a string of single-byte ascii chars just like a c/C++ one?

There are workarounds- I could create the struct using sbyte, then create another version of the struct with the sbytes converted to chars. But I am looking for something as simple as what I can do in C++ or Delphi! I am happy in my unsafeness! I am also happy to use the GC!

tia
>h