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

[Pablo Ruiz]

Well that was a design decision (I guess) based on the fact that UTF8 tends
to be more common on *ix lands.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Ian Norton <inb at ncipher.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Tim Nelson < nelson.timothy at gmail.com
> <mailto: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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