Culture-Sensitive VB.NET Property

using System.Text

Encoding.BigEndianUnicode

Internationalization (I18n) Property Overview

Returns an encoding for the UTF-16 format using the big endian byte order, where the most significant byte of the Unicode character comes first, followed by the least significant byte.

See Microsoft's MSDN online documentation for more information.

I18n Issues

Use of this property probably does not pose an I18n problem. Globalyzer detects it by default because during the internationalization process it is important that you are aware of all of the places in your code where you are performing character encoding conversions. Further, if Encoding.BigEndianUnicode is being used to convert character data intended for use on a Windows platform, it is important that the endian value be properly passed to the constructor. Macintosh systems, for example, internally use UTF-16 big endian byte order, while Windows systems use little endian, which is the opposite byte ordering.