Culture-Sensitive VB.NET Property

using System.Text

Encoding.Unicode

Internationalization (I18n) Property Overview

Returns an encoding for the UTF-16 format using the little endian byte order, where the least significant byte of the Unicode character comes first, followed by the most 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.Unicode is being used to convert character data intended for use on a Macintosh platform, it is important that the endian value be properly passed to the constructor. Windows systems, for example, internally use UTF-16 little endian byte order, while Macintosh systems use big endian, which is the opposite byte ordering.