Norman Rasmussen Wrote: > As you found, sometimes the .net framework actually does > a utf-16 encoding when you ask it for utf-8. This has > nailed me recently when trying to use webservices.
All strings in .NET are UTF-16 encoded. This is the way .NET works. Likewise strings in Windows (NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, etc) are also UTF-16 encoded. The only way to directly manipulate UTF-8 is using byte arrays. As soon as you put things into .NET strings, they are going to be encoded using UTF-16. The various encoders in .NET (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, and a few others) can all convert from a string to a byte array and back. > I ended up having to add and remove the 'marker' bytes > (0xff, 0xfe) at the front of the byte array to get it > to work properly. My guess is that you're doing something wrong. I've never had to do this, and I've done quite a bit of work with the various encodings of Unicode in .NET. -- Chris Mullins
