How can I write to a file with different encoding?

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How can I write to the same file with different encoding?
The file has records where different fields in each record has different
encoding (because of use in different modules in a production machine).
Open and close several times (with different encoding) for each record is
not whery efficient.
 
You can open file once, and write to multiple positions.
You can write bytes that were obtained with special encoding, Lets suppose
that you have 2 fields with
UTF-8 and ASCII

Then you can obtain bytes with appropriate encoding
byte[] field1 = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(field1);
byte[] field2 = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(field2);

Now you get two fields encoded with 2 different encodings
 
The file has records where different fields in each record has different
encoding (because of use in different modules in a production machine).
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This is really-really bad internationalization design.
Go with a for of Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16, whatever) and you will not be
mistaken.
 
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