Encoding.BigEndianUnicode Property
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
/** @property */ public static Encoding get_BigEndianUnicode ()
public static function get BigEndianUnicode () : Encoding
Not applicable.
Property Value
A Encoding for the UTF-16 format using the big endian byte order.For a discussion of big endian byte order, see the description of the Encoding class.
Note that the BigEndianUnicode property retrieves a Encoder object having BodyName, HeaderName, and WebName properties yielding the name "unicodeFFFE". Although the UTF-16 big endian byte order mark is hexadecimal FEFF, the name "unicodeFFFE" was chosen because the byte order mark appears as hexadecimal FFFE on little endian Windows computers.
The following code example reads a text file with a UTF-16 encoding using the big endian byte order.
using namespace System; using namespace System::IO; int main() { // Read a text file saved with Big Endian Unicode encoding. System::Text::Encoding^ encoding = System::Text::Encoding::BigEndianUnicode; StreamReader^ reader = gcnew StreamReader( "TextFile.txt",encoding ); String^ line = reader->ReadLine(); while ( line != nullptr ) { Console::WriteLine( line ); line = reader->ReadLine(); } }
package BigEndianExample;
import System.*;
import System.IO.*;
public class Class1
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
// Read a text file saved with Big Endian Unicode encoding.
System.Text.Encoding encoding = System.Text.Encoding.
get_BigEndianUnicode();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader("TextFile.txt", encoding);
String line = reader.ReadLine();
while((line != null)) {
Console.WriteLine(line);
line = reader.ReadLine();
}
} //main
} //Class1
The following code example determines the number of bytes required to encode a character array, encodes the characters, and displays the resulting bytes.
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 */
import System.*;
import System.Text.*;
import System.Byte;
public class SamplesEncoding
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
// 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.get_UTF7();
Encoding u8 = Encoding.get_UTF8();
Encoding u16LE = Encoding.get_Unicode();
Encoding u16BE = Encoding.get_BigEndianUnicode();
Encoding u32 = Encoding.get_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);
} //main
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}", String.valueOf(iBC));
// Display the maximum byte count.
int iMBC = enc.GetMaxByteCount(chars.length);
Console.Write(" {0,-3} :", String.valueOf(iMBC));
// Encode the array of chars.
ubyte bytes[] = enc.GetBytes(chars);
// Display all the encoded bytes.
PrintHexBytes(bytes);
} //PrintCountsAndBytes
public static void PrintHexBytes(ubyte bytes[])
{
if(bytes == null || bytes.length == 0) {
Console.WriteLine("<none>");
}
else {
for(int i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++) {
Console.Write("{0:X2} ",
((System.Byte)bytes[i]).ToString("X2"));
}
Console.WriteLine();
}
} //PrintHexBytes
} //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
*/
Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows CE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.