Anybody can help me?

How to get a collection of WhatValidStrings to use with:
System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(WhatValidStrings)

Hi,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...dingtopic2.asp


Ken
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"John Smith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Anybody can help me?
>
> How to get a collection of WhatValidStrings to use with:
> System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(WhatValidStrings)
>

* John Smith <(E-Mail Removed)> scripsit:
> How to get a collection of WhatValidStrings to use with:
> System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(WhatValidStrings)

See:

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemtextencodingclassgetencodingtopic2.asp>

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

Thaks

I got much more information from analyzing my specific operating system
and framework, see the list bellow, please note that there are many
alias, for instance I can use "Chinese" or "GB2312", can't use "English"
but can used "Arabic" ....
I need my program to use a function or something else to retrieve a list
of updated and supported code pages (?? i am confused with the term code
page that is used at least in two different contexts)

37: IBM EBCDIC (US-Canada), IBM037, IBM037
437: OEM United States, IBM437, IBM437
500: IBM EBCDIC (International), IBM500, IBM500
708: Arabic (ASMO 708), ASMO-708, ASMO-708
720: Arabic (DOS), DOS-720, DOS-720
737: Greek (DOS), ibm737, ibm737
775: Baltic (DOS), ibm775, ibm775
850: Western European (DOS), ibm850, ibm850
852: Central European (DOS), ibm852, ibm852
855: OEM Cyrillic, IBM855, IBM855
857: Turkish (DOS), ibm857, ibm857
860: Portuguese (DOS), IBM860, IBM860
861: Icelandic (DOS), ibm861, ibm861
862: Hebrew (DOS), DOS-862, DOS-862
863: French Canadian (DOS), IBM863, IBM863
864: Arabic (864), IBM864, IBM864
865: Nordic (DOS), IBM865, IBM865
866: Cyrillic (DOS), cp866, cp866
869: Greek, Modern (DOS), ibm869, ibm869
874: Thai (Windows), windows-874, windows-874
875: IBM EBCDIC (Greek Modern), cp875, cp875
932: Japanese (Shift-JIS), iso-2022-jp, iso-2022-jp
936: Chinese Simplified (GB2312), gb2312, gb2312
949: Korean, ks_c_5601-1987, ks_c_5601-1987
950: Chinese Traditional (Big5), big5, big5
1026: IBM EBCDIC (Turkish Latin-5), IBM1026, IBM1026
1200: Unicode, utf-16, utf-16
1201: Unicode (Big-Endian), unicodeFFFE, unicodeFFFE
1250: Central European (Windows), iso-8859-2, windows-1250
1251: Cyrillic (Windows), koi8-r, windows-1251
1252: Western European (Windows), iso-8859-1, Windows-1252
1253: Greek (Windows), iso-8859-7, windows-1253
1254: Turkish (Windows), iso-8859-9, windows-1254
1255: Hebrew (Windows), windows-1255, windows-1255
1256: Arabic (Windows), windows-1256, windows-1256
1257: Baltic (Windows), windows-1257, windows-1257
1258: Vietnamese (Windows), windows-1258, windows-1258
1361: Korean (Johab), Johab, Johab
10000: Western European (Mac), macintosh, macintosh
10001: Japanese (Mac), x-mac-japanese, x-mac-japanese
10002: Chinese Traditional (Mac), x-mac-chinesetrad, x-mac-chinesetrad
10003: Korean (Mac), x-mac-korean, x-mac-korean
10004: Arabic (Mac), x-mac-arabic, x-mac-arabic
10005: Hebrew (Mac), x-mac-hebrew, x-mac-hebrew
10006: Greek (Mac), x-mac-greek, x-mac-greek
10007: Cyrillic (Mac), x-mac-cyrillic, x-mac-cyrillic
10008: Chinese Simplified (Mac), x-mac-chinesesimp, x-mac-chinesesimp
10010: Romanian (Mac), x-mac-romanian, x-mac-romanian
10017: Ukrainian (Mac), x-mac-ukrainian, x-mac-ukrainian
10021: Thai (Mac), x-mac-thai, x-mac-thai
10029: Central European (Mac), x-mac-ce, x-mac-ce
10079: Icelandic (Mac), x-mac-icelandic, x-mac-icelandic
10081: Turkish (Mac), x-mac-turkish, x-mac-turkish
10082: Croatian (Mac), x-mac-croatian, x-mac-croatian
20000: Chinese Traditional (CNS), x-Chinese-CNS, x-Chinese-CNS
20127: US-ASCII, us-ascii, us-ascii
20261: T.61, x-cp20261, x-cp20261
20290: IBM EBCDIC (Japanese katakana), IBM290, IBM290
20866: Cyrillic (KOI8-R), koi8-r, koi8-r
20932: Japanese (JIS 0208-1990 and 0212-1990), EUC-JP, EUC-JP
20936: Chinese Simplified (GB2312-80), x-cp20936, x-cp20936
20949: Korean Wansung, x-cp20949, x-cp20949
21027: Ext Alpha Lowercase, x-cp21027, x-cp21027
21866: Cyrillic (KOI8-U), koi8-u, koi8-u
28591: Western European (ISO), iso-8859-1, iso-8859-1
28592: Central European (ISO), iso-8859-2, iso-8859-2
28594: Baltic (ISO), iso-8859-4, iso-8859-4
28595: Cyrillic (ISO), iso-8859-5, iso-8859-5
28596: Arabic (ISO), iso-8859-6, iso-8859-6
28597: Greek (ISO), iso-8859-7, iso-8859-7
28598: Hebrew (ISO-Visual), iso-8859-8, iso-8859-8
28599: Turkish (ISO), iso-8859-9, iso-8859-9
28603: Estonian (ISO), iso-8859-13, iso-8859-13
28605: Latin 9 (ISO), iso-8859-15, iso-8859-15
38598: Hebrew (ISO-Logical), iso-8859-8-i, iso-8859-8-i
50220: Japanese (JIS), iso-2022-jp, iso-2022-jp
50221: Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana), iso-2022-jp, iso-2022-jp
50222: Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana - SO/SI), iso-2022-jp, iso-2022-jp
50225: Korean (ISO), iso-2022-kr, euc-kr
50227: Chinese Simplified (ISO-2022), x-cp50227, x-cp50227
51932: Japanese (EUC), euc-jp, euc-jp
51936: Chinese Simplified (EUC), EUC-CN, EUC-CN
51949: Korean (EUC), euc-kr, euc-kr
52936: Chinese Simplified (HZ), hz-gb-2312, hz-gb-2312
54936: Chinese Simplified (GB18030), GB18030, GB18030
57002: ISCII Devanagari, x-iscii-de, x-iscii-de
57003: ISCII Bengali, x-iscii-be, x-iscii-be
57004: ISCII Tamil, x-iscii-ta, x-iscii-ta
57005: ISCII Telugu, x-iscii-te, x-iscii-te
57006: ISCII Assamese, x-iscii-as, x-iscii-as
57007: ISCII Oriya, x-iscii-or, x-iscii-or
57008: ISCII Kannada, x-iscii-ka, x-iscii-ka
57009: ISCII Malayalam, x-iscii-ma, x-iscii-ma
57010: ISCII Gujarati, x-iscii-gu, x-iscii-gu
57011: ISCII Punjabi, x-iscii-pa, x-iscii-pa
65000: Unicode (UTF-7), utf-7, utf-7
65001: Unicode (UTF-8), utf-8, utf-8


Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:
> * John Smith <(E-Mail Removed)> scripsit:
>
>>How to get a collection of WhatValidStrings to use with:
>>System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(WhatValidStrings)
>
>
> See:
>
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemtextencodingclassgetencodingtopic2.asp>
>