Encode characters : Encoding « Internationalization I18N « VB.Net






Encode characters

 

Imports System
Imports System.Text
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings

Class EncoderTest

    Public Shared Sub Main()
        ' ChrW(928) = Pi, ChrW(931) = Sigma
        Dim chars() As Char = {ChrW(928), ChrW(931)}
        ' Encode characters using an Encoding object.
        Dim encoding As Encoding = Encoding.UTF7

        Dim firstchar As Byte() = encoding.GetBytes(chars, 0, 1)
        Console.WriteLine("First character:")
        ShowArray(firstchar)


    End Sub 'Main


    Public Shared Sub ShowArray(theArray As Array)
        Dim o As Object
        For Each o In  theArray
            Console.Write("[{0}]", o)
        Next o
        Console.WriteLine(ControlChars.NewLine)
    End Sub 'ShowArray
End Class 'EncoderTest

   
  








Related examples in the same category

1.Convert the string into a byte[]
2.Perform the conversion from one encoding to the other.
3.Encoder Class converts a set of characters into a sequence of bytes.
4.Encode characters using an Encoder object
5.Encoder Constructor initializes a new instance of the Encoder class.
6.Encoder.GetByteCount
7.Encoder.GetBytes
8.Encoding Class represents a character encoding.
9.Perform the conversion from one encoding to the other
10.Encoding\Encoding.ASCII Property gets an encoding for the ASCII (7-bit) character set.
11.Encoding.BigEndianUnicode Property gets an encoding for the UTF-16 format that uses the big endian byte order.
12.Read a text file saved with Big Endian Unicode encoding
13.Encoding.UTF7
14.Encoding.Unicode
15.Encoding.BigEndianUnicode
16.Encoding.UTF32
17.Encoding.BodyName
18.Encoding.Equals determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current instance.
19.Encoding.GetByteCount (Char[]) calculates the number of bytes
20.Encoding.GetByteCount calculates the number of bytes
21.Encoding.GetCharCount calculates the number of characters produced by decoding
22.Encoding.GetEncodings returns an array that contains all encodings.
23.Encoding.GetPreamble returns a sequence of bytes that specifies the encoding used.
24.Calculates the number of bytes produced by encoding a set of characters from the specified character array.
25.Calculates the number of bytes produced by encoding the characters in the specified String.
26.Encodes a set of characters from the specified character array into the specified byte array.
27.Encodes a set of characters from the specified String into the specified byte array.
28.Calculates the number of characters produced by decoding a sequence of bytes from the specified byte array.
29.Decodes a sequence of bytes from the specified byte array into the specified character array.
30.Returns the hash code for the current instance.
31.Calculates the maximum number of bytes produced by encoding the specified number of characters.
32.Calculates the maximum number of characters produced by decoding the specified number of bytes.
33.Returns a Unicode byte order mark encoded in UTF-16 format
34.UTF7Encoding Class represents a UTF-7 encoding of Unicode characters.
35.Whether to provide a Unicode byte order mark and whether to throw an exception
36.Calculates number of bytes produced by encoding a set of characters from the specified character array.
37.Calculates the number of bytes produced by encoding the characters in the specified String.
38.Encodes a set of characters from the specified character array into the specified byte array.
39.Encodes a set of characters from the specified String into the specified byte array.
40.Get an encoding for code page 1252 (Western Europe character set)
41.UTF-16 encoding of Unicode characters.
42.Represents a UTF-32 encoding of Unicode characters.
43.Represents a UTF-8 encoding of Unicode characters.