Imports System
Imports System.Text

Public Class dec
    
    Public Shared Sub Main()
        ' These bytes in UTF-8 correspond to 3 different Unicode
        ' characters: space (U+0020), # (U+0023), and the biohazard
        ' symbol (U+2623).  Note the biohazard symbol requires 3 bytes
        ' in UTF-8 (hexadecimal e2, 98, a3).  Decoders store state across
        ' multiple calls to GetChars, handling the case when one char
        ' is in multiple byte arrays.
        Dim bytes1 As Byte() =  {&H20, &H23, &HE2}
        Dim bytes2 As Byte() =  {&H98, &HA3}
        Dim chars(3) As Char
        
        Dim d As Decoder = Encoding.UTF8.GetDecoder()
        Dim charLen As Integer = d.GetChars(bytes1, 0, bytes1.Length, chars, 0)
        ' The value of charLen should be 2 now.
        charLen += d.GetChars(bytes2, 0, bytes2.Length, chars, charLen)
        Dim c As Char
        For Each c In  chars
            Console.Write("U+{0:X4}  ", Convert.ToUInt16(c) )
        Next c
    End Sub
End Class

using System;
using System.Text;
public class dec
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        // These bytes in UTF-8 correspond to 3 different Unicode
        // characters: space (U+0020), # (U+0023), and the biohazard
        // symbol (U+2623).  Note the biohazard symbol requires 3 bytes
        // in UTF-8 (hexadecimal e2, 98, a3).  Decoders store state across
        // multiple calls to GetChars, handling the case when one char
        // is in multiple byte arrays.
        byte[] bytes1 = { 0x20, 0x23, 0xe2 };
        byte[] bytes2 = { 0x98, 0xa3 };
        char[] chars = new char[3];

        Decoder d = Encoding.UTF8.GetDecoder();
        int charLen = d.GetChars(bytes1, 0, bytes1.Length, chars, 0);
        // The value of charLen should be 2 now.
        charLen += d.GetChars(bytes2, 0, bytes2.Length, chars, charLen);
        foreach(char c in chars)
            Console.Write("U+{0:X4}  ", (ushort)c);
    }
}

using namespace System;
using namespace System::Text;
int main()
{
   
   // These bytes in UTF-8 correspond to 3 different Unicode
   // characters: space (U+0020), # (U+0023), and the biohazard
   // symbol (U+2623).  Note the biohazard symbol requires 3 bytes
   // in UTF-8 (hexadecimal e2, 98, a3).  Decoders store state across
   // multiple calls to GetChars, handling the case when one char
   // is in multiple byte arrays.
   array<Byte>^bytes1 = {0x20,0x23,0xe2};
   array<Byte>^bytes2 = {0x98,0xa3};
   array<Char>^chars = gcnew array<Char>(3);
   Decoder^ d = Encoding::UTF8->GetDecoder();
   int charLen = d->GetChars( bytes1, 0, bytes1->Length, chars, 0 );
   
   // The value of charLen should be 2 now.
   charLen += d->GetChars( bytes2, 0, bytes2->Length, chars, charLen );
   for ( UInt16 index(0); index < chars->Length; ++index )
   {
      Console::Write( "U+{0:X4}  ", static_cast<UInt16>(chars[ index ]) );

   }
}

import System.*;
import System.Text.*;

public class Dec
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        // These bytes in UTF-8 correspond to 3 different Unicode
        // characters: space (U+0020), # (U+0023), and the biohazard
        // symbol (U+2623).  Note the biohazard symbol requires 3 bytes
        // in UTF-8 (hexadecimal e2, 98, a3).  Decoders store state across
        // multiple calls to GetChars, handling the case when one char
        // is in multiple byte arrays.
        ubyte bytes1[] =  { 0x20, 0x23, 0xE2 };
        ubyte bytes2[] =  { 0x98, 0xA3 };
        char chars[] = new char[3];
        
        Decoder d = Encoding.get_UTF8().GetDecoder();
        int charLen = d.GetChars(bytes1, 0, bytes1.length, chars, 0);
        
        // The value of charLen should be 2 now.
        charLen += d.GetChars(bytes2, 0, bytes2.length, chars, charLen);

        for (int iCtr = 0; iCtr < chars.length; iCtr++) {
            char c = chars[iCtr];
            Console.Write("U+{0}  ",((Int16)c).ToString("X4"));
        }
    } //main
} //Dec