How to recognize if a string contains unicode chars?

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If my assumptions are correct you wish to know if your string contains any “non-ANSI” characters. You can derive this as follows. 

    public void test()
    {
        const string WithUnicodeCharacter = "a hebrew character:\uFB2F";
        const string WithoutUnicodeCharacter = "an ANSI character:Æ";

        bool hasUnicode;

        //true
        hasUnicode = ContainsUnicodeCharacter(WithUnicodeCharacter);
        Console.WriteLine(hasUnicode);

        //false
        hasUnicode = ContainsUnicodeCharacter(WithoutUnicodeCharacter);
        Console.WriteLine(hasUnicode);
    }

    public bool ContainsUnicodeCharacter(string input)
    {
        const int MaxAnsiCode = 255;

        return input.Any(c => c > MaxAnsiCode);
    }

Update

This will detect for extended ASCII. If you only detect for the true ASCII character range (up to 127), then you could potentially get false positives for extended ASCII characters which does not denote Unicode. I have alluded to this in my sample.

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