text encoding

[Claire]

Does anyone know of a link to a detailed reference on the different types of
text encoding supported by .net please.
I'm having trouble trying to discover the differences (yes Ive googled but
am I using the best search string?) .
In the mean time, on a handheld the text is stored as single byte text
(don't ask me if its ansi or ascii). Which form of encoding is this when I
upload and translate it to the pc?

thanks

 

[Shakir Hussain]

Claire

You can start with this link to know more about encoding

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ef/html/frlrfsystemtextencodingclasstopic.asp

These are the different encoding classes available

System.Text.Encoding (base class)
System.Text.ASCIIEncoding (derived classes)
System.Text.UnicodeEncoding
System.Text.UTF7Encoding
System.Text.UTF8Encoding

 

[Claire]

thanks Shakir

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Does anyone know of a link to a detailed reference on the different types of
text encoding supported by .net please.
I'm having trouble trying to discover the differences (yes Ive googled but
am I using the best search string?) .
In the mean time, on a handheld the text is stored as single byte text
(don't ask me if its ansi or ascii). Which form of encoding is this when I
upload and translate it to the pc?

Have a look at http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/unicode.html