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UnicodeEncoding Class

Defines behaviors specific to a writing system, and represents a Unicode character encoding.

Object
   Encoding
      UnicodeEncoding

[Visual Basic]
Public Class UnicodeEncoding
   Inherits Encoding
[C#]
public class UnicodeEncoding : Encoding
[C++]
public __gc class UnicodeEncoding : public Encoding
[JScript]
public class UnicodeEncoding extends Encoding

Remarks

A writing system is the collection of scripts and orthographic rules required to represent a language as text. This class implements a set of methods for translating between Unicode and its equivalent two consecutive bytes.

Unicode encoding encodes each Unicode character as two consecutive bytes. Both little-endian (code page 1200) and big-endian (code page 1201) encodings are supported.

This class implements the Encoding abstract base class.

Requirements

Namespace: System.Text

Assembly: mscorlib.dll

See Also

UnicodeEncoding Members | System.Text Namespace