Returns the maximum number of characters produced by decoding a given number of bytes.
[Visual Basic] Overrides Public Function GetMaxCharCount( _ ByVal byteCount As Integer _ ) As Integer [C#] public override int GetMaxCharCount( int byteCount ); [C++] public: override int GetMaxCharCount( int byteCount ); [JScript] public override function GetMaxCharCount( byteCount : int ) : int;
The maximum number of characters produced by decoding a given number of bytes.
This method can be used to determine an appropriate buffer size for character arrays passed to GetChars or the GetChars for this encoding. All encoding must guarantee that no buffer overflow exceptions will occur if buffers are sized according to the results of this method.
UnicodeEncoding Class | UnicodeEncoding Members | System.Text Namespace | GetChars | GetChars