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

[Ian Norton]

Can I change the default encoding at compile time? Or perhaps some app configs? "Use a different encoder" doesn't help people without sources

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

>Use Encoding.UTF16 instead of Encoding.Default.
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>On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Tim Nelson < nelson.timothy at gmail.com<mailto:nelson.timothy at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>Just to be sure I understand...
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>Since I inherited a pile of code that was relying on byte/string conversions...
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>I am dead in the water and there is no trick I can play to coerce Mono
>strings to be UTF16, correct?
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>On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Pablo Ruiz < pablo.ruiz at gmail.com<mailto: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>>
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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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