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

[Pablo Ruiz]

Use Encoding.UTF16 instead of Encoding.Default.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Tim Nelson <nelson.timothy at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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