I'm running 2 programs that execute the same code : write to a binary file.

When the c++ code saves a one byte with value 2 to the file it seems to be binary stored as HEX 02. However when my C# program writes it to the file it seems to be stored as HEX 32.

Could it be this has something to do with char encoding UTF_16 is default in C#? (if I read correctly in an article a few days ago.)

Any way to make sure C# will write the byte value 2 to file as HEX 02 instead of HEX 32 ?

            EndianBinaryWriter writer = new EndianBinaryWriter(new FileStream("myfile.dat", Endian.Little);
            char LineDepth = '4';
            if(MaxDev<=127) {
                LineDepth = '1';
            } else
            if(MaxDev<=32767) {
                LineDepth = '2';
            }

            // write line header
            //char BlockBuf[5];
            //MemoryStream BlockBuf = new MemoryStream();
            //EndianBinaryWriter BlockBufWriter = new EndianBinaryWriter(endian, BlockBuf);

            //hfzMemcpy(BlockBuf, &LineDepth, 1); // store line depth
            //hfzMemcpy(BlockBuf+1, &FirstVal, 4); // store first value (32bit precis)
            writer.Write(LineDepth);

This is a bit of an extract of the code but it should give the intention. I like to write away exactly one byte with value 1, 2 or 4 depending on some if statement. Now I always thought that a char was one byte so I'm trying to write it as a char but that seems to be wrong cause when I compare it with a file as how it SHOULD be it should be HEX 02 while in my file it's HEX 32

UPDATE

John showed me the light , by putting the byte value 2 from a source file into a char , I was not putting value 2 in that char but value 32 , which caused my resulting file to be corrupt. Kind of a rookie mistake, but maybe my question will help out other rookies in the future ?