UTF-16 encoding of Unicode characters. : Encoding « Internationalization I18N « VB.Net






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UTF-16 encoding of Unicode characters.

 

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

Class UnicodeEncodingExample
    Public Shared Sub Main()
        Dim uni As New UnicodeEncoding()
        Dim unicodeString As String = "Pi (" & ChrW(928) & ") and Sigma (" & ChrW(931) & ")."
        Dim encodedBytes As Byte() = uni.GetBytes(unicodeString)
        Dim b As Byte
        For Each b In  encodedBytes
            Console.Write("[{0}]", b)
        Next b
        Dim decodedString As String = uni.GetString(encodedBytes)
        Console.WriteLine(decodedString)
    End Sub
End Class








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