VB.NET Encoding Information

VB.NET supports Unicode internally, using UTF-16 encoding. However, when interfacing with other applications and operating systems, it may be necessary to switch to a different encoding. Care must be taken to ensure that the encoding is correct.

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ASCIIEncoding()

Encoding.ASCII Property

Encoding.BigEndianUnicode Property

Encoding()

Encoding.GetBytes()

Encoding.GetDecoder()

Encoding.GetEncoder()

Encoding.Unicode Property

Encoding.UTF7 Property

Encoding.UTF8 Property

Encoding.WindowsCodePage Property

Read()

ReadLine()

StreamReader()

UnicodeEncoding()

UTF7Encoding()

UTF8Encoding()

Write()

WriteLine()

 Locale-Sensitive VB.NET Methods