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
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.
Namespace: System.Text
Assembly: mscorlib.dll