Encoding-Sensitive C# Property

using System.Text

Encoding.WindowsCodePage;

Internationalization (I18n) Property Overview

When overridden in a derived class, Encoding.WindowsCodePage property gets the Windows operating system code page that most closely corresponds to the current encoding.

For more information see Microsoft's MSDN online documentation.

I18n Issues

This property is provided for compatibility with the Windows MultiLanguage (MLang) APIs, for example, in determining font families. For i18n, using one of the Unicode encodings is recommended instead.