Universe SEQ function and .Net

Not really a WPF issue but I don't want to lose track of this reference.

This blog has lots of useful info regarding using Universe from .Net
GigaMegaTech
including this nugget about the SEQ() function.

The strings returned from Universe are encoded in ANSI format. So the SEQ function in Universe doesn't return the same values in the extended character set as .Net does. Therefore the need to use:

Encoding.Ansi.GetBytes();