.NET Common Language Runtime Unleashed

System.Text

The System.Text namespace contains classes that deal with converting from one character encoding to another. The input is assumed primarily to be Unicode. The output varies with the encoding class that is selected. Listing B.59 shows an example of using the UTF8 encoding class (encoding.cs).

Listing B.59. Using UTF8 Encoding

byte [] encoded; UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding(); Console.WriteLine("CodePage: {0} ", encoding.CodePage); Console.WriteLine("EncodingName: {0} ", encoding.EncodingName); Console.WriteLine("WindowsCodePage: {0} ", encoding.WindowsCodePage); encoded = encoding.GetBytes(japanese); Console.WriteLine("Encoded Japanese: {0} <-> {1} ", japanese.Length, encoded.Length); encoded = encoding.GetBytes(chinese); ...