Csharp/CSharp Tutorial/I18N Internationalization/Encoding Unicode

Big Endian Unicode Bytes

using System;
using System.Text;
public class MainClass
{
    static void Main() {
        string str = "abc!";
        
        Encoding unicode = Encoding.Unicode;
        Encoding beUnicode = Encoding.BigEndianUnicode;
        
        byte[] unicodeBytes = unicode.GetBytes(str);
        
        byte[] beUnicodeBytes = Encoding.Convert( unicode,
                                                  beUnicode,
                                                  unicodeBytes);
        Console.WriteLine( "Big Endian Unicode Bytes:" );
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        foreach( byte b in beUnicodeBytes ) {
            sb.Append( b ).Append(" : ");
        }
        Console.WriteLine( "{0}\n", sb.ToString() );
        
    }
}

Big Endian Unicode Bytes:
0 : 97 : 0 : 98 : 0 : 99 : 0 : 33 :

Convert UTF8 from Unicode

using System;
using System.Text;
public class MainClass
{
    static void Main() {
        string str = "abc!";
        
        Encoding unicode = Encoding.Unicode;
        Encoding utf8 = Encoding.UTF8;
        
        byte[] unicodeBytes = unicode.GetBytes(str);
        
        byte[] utf8Bytes = Encoding.Convert( unicode,
                                             utf8,
                                             unicodeBytes );
                                             
        Console.WriteLine( "UTF Bytes:" );
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        foreach( byte b in utf8Bytes ) {
            sb.Append( b ).Append(" : ");
        }
        Console.WriteLine( sb.ToString() );        
    }
}

UTF Bytes:
97 : 98 : 99 : 33 :

Encodings: Encoding.GetEncoding(1252)

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Resources;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Globalization;
public class MainClass
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        Encoding westernEuropean = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);
        Console.WriteLine(westernEuropean);
    }
}

System.Text.SBCSCodePageEncoding

Unicode encode

using System;
using System.Text;
public class MainClass
{
    static void Main() {
        string str = "abc!";
        
        Encoding unicode = Encoding.Unicode;
        
        byte[] unicodeBytes = unicode.GetBytes(str);
        
        Console.WriteLine( "Orig. String: {0}\n", str );
        Console.WriteLine( "Little Endian Unicode Bytes:" );
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        foreach( byte b in unicodeBytes ) {
            sb.Append( b ).Append(" : ");
        }
        Console.WriteLine( "{0}\n", sb.ToString() );
        
    }
}

Orig. String: abc!
Little Endian Unicode Bytes:
97 : 0 : 98 : 0 : 99 : 0 : 33 : 0 :