append chr(254) to a string

[boredsilly]

How do I append character 253 (not the Unicode equivalent which is 2 bytes) to a string? I need to write this to a file as chr(253) is the delimiter expected but it always gets written as 2 bytes c3 & bd which I guess is the Unicode equivalent.

 

[Erel]

You should probably work with bytes instead of characters.
You can convert a string to bytes with:

"some string".GetBytes("ASCII")

This will allow you to write the byte 253 directly.