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

[Atsushi Eno]

No, not UTF-16. Default encoding is platform dependent. e.g. it is MS932 
on my Japanese Windows, Latin1 for those in the U.S., and UTF-8 on 
modern Linux desktop like gnome2 or 3.

Atsushi Eno

(2011/07/21 11:47), Pablo Ruiz 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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