Encoding in action
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
class Test
{
public static void Main()
{
using (StreamWriter output = new StreamWriter("practice.txt"))
{
// Create and write a string containing the symbol for Pi.
string srcString = "Area = \u03A0r^2";
// Convert the UTF-16 encoded source string to UTF-8 and ASCII.
byte[] utf8String = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(srcString);
byte[] asciiString = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(srcString);
// Write the UTF-8 and ASCII encoded byte arrays.
output.WriteLine("UTF-8 Bytes: {0}", BitConverter.ToString(utf8String));
output.WriteLine("ASCII Bytes: {0}", BitConverter.ToString(asciiString));
// Convert UTF-8 and ASCII encoded bytes back to UTF-16 encoded
// string and write.
output.WriteLine("UTF-8 Text : {0}", Encoding.UTF8.GetString(utf8String));
output.WriteLine("ASCII Text : {0}", Encoding.ASCII.GetString(asciiString));
Console.WriteLine(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(utf8String));
Console.WriteLine(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(asciiString));
}
}
}
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