Encoding Members (System.Text)

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Encoding Members

Represents a character encoding.

The Encoding type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	Encoding	Overloaded. Initializes a new instance of the Encoding class.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	Clone	When overridden in a derived class, creates a shallow copy of the current Encoding object.
	Convert	Overloaded. Converts a byte array from one encoding to another.
	Equals	Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current instance. (Overrides Object..::.Equals(Object).)
	Finalize	Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetByteCount	Overloaded. When overridden in a derived class, calculates the number of bytes produced by encoding a set of characters.
	GetBytes	Overloaded. When overridden in a derived class, encodes a set of characters into a sequence of bytes.
	GetCharCount	Overloaded. When overridden in a derived class, calculates the number of characters produced by decoding a sequence of bytes.
	GetChars	Overloaded. When overridden in a derived class, decodes a sequence of bytes into a set of characters.
	GetDecoder	When overridden in a derived class, obtains a decoder that converts an encoded sequence of bytes into a sequence of characters.
	GetEncoder	When overridden in a derived class, obtains an encoder that converts a sequence of Unicode characters into an encoded sequence of bytes.
	GetEncoding	Overloaded. Returns an encoding for the specified code page.
	GetEncodings	Returns an array containing all encodings.
	GetHashCode	Returns the hash code for the current instance. (Overrides Object..::.GetHashCode()()().)
	GetMaxByteCount	When overridden in a derived class, calculates the maximum number of bytes produced by encoding the specified number of characters.
	GetMaxCharCount	When overridden in a derived class, calculates the maximum number of characters produced by decoding the specified number of bytes.
	GetPreamble	When overridden in a derived class, returns a sequence of bytes that specifies the encoding used.
	GetString	Overloaded. When overridden in a derived class, decodes a sequence of bytes into a string.
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	IsAlwaysNormalized	Overloaded. Gets a value indicating whether the current encoding is always normalized.
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	Returns a String that represents the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)

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Properties

	Name	Description
	ASCII	Gets an encoding for the ASCII (7-bit) character set.
	BigEndianUnicode	Gets an encoding for the UTF-16 format using the big endian byte order.
	BodyName	When overridden in a derived class, gets a name for the current encoding that can be used with mail agent body tags.
	CodePage	When overridden in a derived class, gets the code page identifier of the current Encoding.
	DecoderFallback	Gets or sets the DecoderFallback object for the current Encoding object.
	Default	Gets an encoding for the operating system's current ANSI code page.
	EncoderFallback	Gets or sets the EncoderFallback object for the current Encoding object.
	EncodingName	When overridden in a derived class, gets the human-readable description of the current encoding.
	HeaderName	When overridden in a derived class, gets a name for the current encoding that can be used with mail agent header tags.
	IsBrowserDisplay	When overridden in a derived class, gets a value indicating whether the current encoding can be used by browser clients for displaying content.
	IsBrowserSave	When overridden in a derived class, gets a value indicating whether the current encoding can be used by browser clients for saving content.
	IsMailNewsDisplay	When overridden in a derived class, gets a value indicating whether the current encoding can be used by mail and news clients for displaying content.
	IsMailNewsSave	When overridden in a derived class, gets a value indicating whether the current encoding can be used by mail and news clients for saving content.
	IsReadOnly	When overridden in a derived class, gets a value indicating whether the current encoding is read-only.
	IsSingleByte	When overridden in a derived class, gets a value indicating whether the current encoding uses single-byte code points.
	Unicode	Gets an encoding for the UTF-16 format using the little endian byte order.
	UTF32	Gets an encoding for the UTF-32 format using the little endian byte order.
	UTF7	Gets an encoding for the UTF-7 format.
	UTF8	Gets an encoding for the UTF-8 format.
	WebName	When overridden in a derived class, gets the name registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for the current encoding.
	WindowsCodePage	When overridden in a derived class, gets the Windows operating system code page that most closely corresponds to the current encoding.

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Reference

Encoding Class

System.Text Namespace