[Mono-bugs] [Bug 78703][Wis] New - String constructors that take sbyte* should use Encoding.Default rather than UTF-8 and Latin-1

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Changed by kornelpal at gmail.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=78703

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+Bug#: 78703
+Product: Mono: Runtime
+Version: unspecified
+OS: All
+OS Details: 
+Status: NEW   
+Resolution: 
+Severity: 
+Priority: Wishlist
+Component: misc
+AssignedTo: mono-bugs at ximian.com                            
+ReportedBy: kornelpal at gmail.com               
+QAContact: mono-bugs at ximian.com
+TargetMilestone: ---
+URL: 
+Cc: 
+Summary: String constructors that take sbyte* should use Encoding.Default rather than UTF-8 and Latin-1
+
+Currently new string(sbyte*) uses UTF-8 and new string(sbyte*, int, int) 
+uses Latin-1 that is incorrect and in addition inconsistent.
+
+Both of them should use Encoding.Default.
+
+MSDN Documentation states the following:
+
+The value parameter is assumed to point to an array representing a string 
+encoded in ASCII; that is, the string is encoded using the ANSI code page.
+
+This is a nonsense as ASCII is a specific code page while ANSI code page 
+is CP_ACP. But even according the documentation it's Encoding.Default. 
+(MS.NET probably uses MultiByteToWideChar with CP_ACP.)