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Encoding::UTF7 Property

Gets an encoding for the UTF-7 format.

Namespace:  System.Text
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

public:
static property Encoding^ UTF7 {
	Encoding^ get ();
}

Property Value

Type: System.Text::Encoding
A Encoding for the UTF-7 format.

UTF-7 is less robust and less secure than UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32. See UTF7Encoding.

For information about the UTFs and other encodings supported by UTF7, see Understanding Encodings. See also Using Unicode Encoding. For more information on UTFs, see The Unicode Standard at the Unicode home page.

The following 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

*/

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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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