[Mono-list] Encoding Issue .Net vs. Mono

[Tim Nelson]

Just to be sure I understand...

Since I inherited a pile of code that was relying on byte/string conversions...

I am dead in the water and there is no trick I can play to coerce Mono
strings to be UTF16, correct?

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Pablo Ruiz <pablo.ruiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mono uses UTF8 as default encoding. .Net uses UTF16
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Tim Nelson <nelson.timothy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> New to Mono, but I am getting a strange result when Encoding bytes and
>> returning a string:
>>
>>
>>     int n =  System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString(new byte[] { 0,
>> 194, 146, 215 }).Length;
>>
>> On .Net, this returns 4.
>> On Mono, this returns 3.
>>
>> If I change the second byte 194 to 193 ... both systems return 4.
>>
>> Is this a Mono bug or my lack of experience with encoding?   If it is
>> a bug, is there a way around this?
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