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

[Ian Norton]

That sounds a little daft, why do we differ?

Pablo Ruiz <pablo.ruiz at gmail.com> wrote:

>Mono uses UTF8 as default encoding. .Net uses UTF16
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>On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Tim Nelson < nelson.timothy at gmail.com<mailto:nelson.timothy at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>New to Mono, but I am getting a strange result when Encoding bytes and
>returning a string:
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>    int n =  System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString(new byte[] { 0,
>194, 146, 215 }).Length;
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>On .Net, this returns 4.
>On Mono, this returns 3.
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>If I change the second byte 194 to 193 ... both systems return 4.
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>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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