Not sure if it’s of use in this case but you can use char.GetUnicodeCategory to check validity of a Unicode character
varvalidCharacter='q'; varucCategory=char.GetUnicodeCategory(validCharacter); varisValidUnicode=ucCategory!=UnicodeCategory.OtherNotAssigned; varinvalidCharacter=(char) 888; ucCategory=char.GetUnicodeCategory(invalidCharacter); isValidUnicode=ucCategory!=UnicodeCategory.OtherNotAssigned; Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, 10 September 2013 11:36 AM To: ozDotNet Does the byte[] actually represent a valid utf-8 string? There are ways of validating, but I can't remember off the top of my head. You can also code Encoding.UTF8.Getstring() as there is a static member for convenience -- Greg On 10 September 2013 13:04, <anthonyatsmall...@mail.com> wrote: Getting out of memory exception when I try to Dim s as string Dim b() as Byte s=System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(“utf-8).GetString(b) Definitely something about the length of b..works fine most of the time except if b length is very large Anthony Melbourne StuffUps…learn from others, share with others! http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Ideas-Incubator-Stuffups-Failed-Startups/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE : The information contained in this electronic mail message is privileged and confidential, and is intended only for use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by reply transmission and delete the message without copying or disclosing it. (*13POrtC*) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
