Obtains a decoder that converts a UTF-8 encoded sequence of bytes into a sequence of Unicode characters.
Imports System
Imports System.Text
Class UTF8EncodingExample
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim chars() As Char
Dim bytes() As Byte = {99, 204, 128, 234, 130, 160}
Dim utf8Decoder As Decoder = Encoding.UTF8.GetDecoder()
Dim charCount As Integer = utf8Decoder.GetCharCount(bytes, 0, bytes.Length)
chars = New Char(charCount - 1) {}
Dim charsDecodedCount As Integer = utf8Decoder.GetChars(bytes, 0, bytes.Length, chars, 0)
Dim c As Char
For Each c In chars
Console.Write("[{0}]", c)
Next c
End Sub
End Class
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