Gets an encoding for the UTF-8 format.
(in mscorlib.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Shared ReadOnly Property UTF8 As Encoding
Dim value As Encoding
value = Encoding.UTF8
public static Encoding UTF8 { get; }
public:
static property Encoding^ UTF8 {
Encoding^ get ();
}
public static function get UTF8 () : Encoding
For a discussion of byte order, see the Encoding class topic.
For information about the UTFs and other encodings supported by UTF8, see Understanding Encodings. See also Using Unicode Encoding. For more information on UTFs, see The Unicode Standard at Unicode home page.
The following code example determines the number of bytes required to encode a character array, encodes the characters, and displays the resulting bytes.
Imports System
Imports System.Text
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Public Class SamplesEncoding
Public Shared Sub Main()
' The characters to encode:
' Latin Small Letter Z (U+007A)
' Latin Small Letter A (U+0061)
' Combining Breve (U+0306)
' Latin Small Letter AE With Acute (U+01FD)
' Greek Small Letter Beta (U+03B2)
' a high-surrogate value (U+D8FF)
' a low-surrogate value (U+DCFF)
Dim myChars() As Char = {"z"c, "a"c, ChrW(&H0306), ChrW(&H01FD), ChrW(&H03B2), ChrW(&HD8FF), ChrW(&HDCFF)}
' Get different encodings.
Dim u7 As Encoding = Encoding.UTF7
Dim u8 As Encoding = Encoding.UTF8
Dim u16LE As Encoding = Encoding.Unicode
Dim u16BE As Encoding = Encoding.BigEndianUnicode
Dim u32 As Encoding = Encoding.UTF32
' Encode the entire array, and print out the counts and the resulting bytes.
PrintCountsAndBytes(myChars, u7)
PrintCountsAndBytes(myChars, u8)
PrintCountsAndBytes(myChars, u16LE)
PrintCountsAndBytes(myChars, u16BE)
PrintCountsAndBytes(myChars, u32)
End Sub 'Main
Public Shared Sub PrintCountsAndBytes(chars() As Char, enc As Encoding)
' Display the name of the encoding used.
Console.Write("{0,-30} :", enc.ToString())
' Display the exact byte count.
Dim iBC As Integer = enc.GetByteCount(chars)
Console.Write(" {0,-3}", iBC)
' Display the maximum byte count.
Dim iMBC As Integer = enc.GetMaxByteCount(chars.Length)
Console.Write(" {0,-3} :", iMBC)
' Encode the array of chars.
Dim bytes As Byte() = enc.GetBytes(chars)
' Display all the encoded bytes.
PrintHexBytes(bytes)
End Sub 'PrintCountsAndBytes
Public Shared Sub PrintHexBytes(bytes() As Byte)
If bytes Is Nothing OrElse bytes.Length = 0 Then
Console.WriteLine("<none>")
Else
Dim i As Integer
For i = 0 To bytes.Length - 1
Console.Write("{0:X2} ", bytes(i))
Next i
Console.WriteLine()
End If
End Sub 'PrintHexBytes
End Class 'SamplesEncoding
'This code produces the following output.
'
'System.Text.UTF7Encoding : 18 23 :7A 61 2B 41 77 59 42 2F 51 4F 79 32 50 2F 63 2F 77 2D
'System.Text.UTF8Encoding : 12 24 :7A 61 CC 86 C7 BD CE B2 F1 8F B3 BF
'System.Text.UnicodeEncoding : 14 16 :7A 00 61 00 06 03 FD 01 B2 03 FF D8 FF DC
'System.Text.UnicodeEncoding : 14 16 :00 7A 00 61 03 06 01 FD 03 B2 D8 FF DC FF
'System.Text.UTF32Encoding : 24 32 :7A 00 00 00 61 00 00 00 06 03 00 00 FD 01 00 00 B2 03 00 00 FF FC 04 00
using System;
using System.Text;
public class SamplesEncoding {
public static void Main() {
// The characters to encode:
// Latin Small Letter Z (U+007A)
// Latin Small Letter A (U+0061)
// Combining Breve (U+0306)
// Latin Small Letter AE With Acute (U+01FD)
// Greek Small Letter Beta (U+03B2)
// a high-surrogate value (U+D8FF)
// a low-surrogate value (U+DCFF)
char[] myChars = new char[] { 'z', 'a', '\u0306', '\u01FD', '\u03B2', '\uD8FF', '\uDCFF' };
// Get different encodings.
Encoding u7 = Encoding.UTF7;
Encoding u8 = Encoding.UTF8;
Encoding u16LE = Encoding.Unicode;
Encoding u16BE = Encoding.BigEndianUnicode;
Encoding u32 = Encoding.UTF32;
// Encode the entire array, and print out the counts and the resulting bytes.
PrintCountsAndBytes( myChars, u7 );
PrintCountsAndBytes( myChars, u8 );
PrintCountsAndBytes( myChars, u16LE );
PrintCountsAndBytes( myChars, u16BE );
PrintCountsAndBytes( myChars, u32 );
}
public static void PrintCountsAndBytes( char[] chars, Encoding enc ) {
// Display the name of the encoding used.
Console.Write( "{0,-30} :", enc.ToString() );
// Display the exact byte count.
int iBC = enc.GetByteCount( chars );
Console.Write( " {0,-3}", iBC );
// Display the maximum byte count.
int iMBC = enc.GetMaxByteCount( chars.Length );
Console.Write( " {0,-3} :", iMBC );
// Encode the array of chars.
byte[] bytes = enc.GetBytes( chars );
// Display all the encoded bytes.
PrintHexBytes( bytes );
}
public static void PrintHexBytes( byte[] bytes ) {
if (( bytes == null ) || ( bytes.Length == 0 ))
Console.WriteLine( "<none>" );
else {
for ( int i = 0; i < bytes.Length; i++ )
Console.Write( "{0:X2} ", bytes[i] );
Console.WriteLine();
}
}
}
/*
This code produces the following output.
System.Text.UTF7Encoding : 18 23 :7A 61 2B 41 77 59 42 2F 51 4F 79 32 50 2F 63 2F 77 2D
System.Text.UTF8Encoding : 12 24 :7A 61 CC 86 C7 BD CE B2 F1 8F B3 BF
System.Text.UnicodeEncoding : 14 16 :7A 00 61 00 06 03 FD 01 B2 03 FF D8 FF DC
System.Text.UnicodeEncoding : 14 16 :00 7A 00 61 03 06 01 FD 03 B2 D8 FF DC FF
System.Text.UTF32Encoding : 24 32 :7A 00 00 00 61 00 00 00 06 03 00 00 FD 01 00 00 B2 03 00 00 FF FC 04 00
*/
using namespace System;
using namespace System::Text;
void PrintCountsAndBytes( array<Char>^chars, Encoding^ enc );
void PrintHexBytes( array<Byte>^bytes );
int main()
{
// The characters to encode:
// Latin Small Letter Z (U+007A)
// Latin Small Letter A (U+0061)
// Combining Breve (U+0306)
// Latin Small Letter AE With Acute (U+01FD)
// Greek Small Letter Beta (U+03B2)
// a high-surrogate value (U+D8FF)
// a low-surrogate value (U+DCFF)
array<Char>^myChars = gcnew array<Char>{
L'z','a',L'\u0306',L'\u01FD',L'\u03B2',L'\xD8FF',L'\xDCFF'
};
// Get different encodings.
Encoding^ u7 = Encoding::UTF7;
Encoding^ u8 = Encoding::UTF8;
Encoding^ u16LE = Encoding::Unicode;
Encoding^ u16BE = Encoding::BigEndianUnicode;
Encoding^ u32 = Encoding::UTF32;
// Encode the entire array, and print out the counts and the resulting bytes.
PrintCountsAndBytes( myChars, u7 );
PrintCountsAndBytes( myChars, u8 );
PrintCountsAndBytes( myChars, u16LE );
PrintCountsAndBytes( myChars, u16BE );
PrintCountsAndBytes( myChars, u32 );
}
void PrintCountsAndBytes( array<Char>^chars, Encoding^ enc )
{
// Display the name of the encoding used.
Console::Write( "{0,-30} :", enc );
// Display the exact byte count.
int iBC = enc->GetByteCount( chars );
Console::Write( " {0,-3}", iBC );
// Display the maximum byte count.
int iMBC = enc->GetMaxByteCount( chars->Length );
Console::Write( " {0,-3} :", iMBC );
// Encode the array of chars.
array<Byte>^bytes = enc->GetBytes( chars );
// Display all the encoded bytes.
PrintHexBytes( bytes );
}
void PrintHexBytes( array<Byte>^bytes )
{
if ( (bytes == nullptr) || (bytes->Length == 0) )
Console::WriteLine( "<none>" );
else
{
for ( int i = 0; i < bytes->Length; i++ )
Console::Write( "{0:X2} ", bytes[ i ] );
Console::WriteLine();
}
}
/*
This code produces the following output.
System.Text.UTF7Encoding : 18 23 :7A 61 2B 41 77 59 42 2F 51 4F 79 32 50 2F 63 2F 77 2D
System.Text.UTF8Encoding : 12 24 :7A 61 CC 86 C7 BD CE B2 F1 8F B3 BF
System.Text.UnicodeEncoding : 14 16 :7A 00 61 00 06 03 FD 01 B2 03 FF D8 FF DC
System.Text.UnicodeEncoding : 14 16 :00 7A 00 61 03 06 01 FD 03 B2 D8 FF DC FF
System.Text.UTF32Encoding : 24 32 :7A 00 00 00 61 00 00 00 06 03 00 00 FD 01 00 00 B2 03 00 00 FF FC 04 00
*/
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The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
.NET Framework
Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
.NET Compact Framework
Supported in: 3.5, 2.0, 1.0
XNA Framework
Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.0
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