| Encoding Class |
Represents a character encoding.
Inheritance HierarchySystemObject
System.TextEncoding
System.TextASCIIEncoding
System.TextUnicodeEncoding
System.TextUTF8Encoding
System.TextEncoding
System.TextASCIIEncoding
System.TextUnicodeEncoding
System.TextUTF8Encoding
Namespace: System.Text
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll) Version: 4.0.0.0
SyntaxC#
[SerializableAttribute] public abstract class Encoding : ICloneable
The Encoding type exposes the following members.
Methods| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | Equals | Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current instance. (Overrides ObjectEquals(Object).) |
| GetByteCount(Char) | When overridden in a derived class, calculates the number of bytes produced by encoding all the characters in the specified character array. |
| GetByteCount(String) | When overridden in a derived class, calculates the number of bytes produced by encoding the characters in the specified string. |
| GetByteCount(Char*, Int32) | When overridden in a derived class, calculates the number of bytes produced by encoding a set of characters starting at the specified character pointer. |
| GetByteCount(Char, Int32, Int32) | When overridden in a derived class, calculates the number of bytes produced by encoding a set of characters from the specified character array. |
| GetBytes(Char) | When overridden in a derived class, encodes all the characters in the specified character array into a sequence of bytes. |
| GetBytes(String) | When overridden in a derived class, encodes all the characters in the specified string into a sequence of bytes. |
| GetBytes(Char, Int32, Int32) | When overridden in a derived class, encodes a set of characters from the specified character array into a sequence of bytes. |
| GetBytes(Char*, Int32, Byte*, Int32) | When overridden in a derived class, encodes a set of characters starting at the specified character pointer into a sequence of bytes that are stored starting at the specified byte pointer. |
| GetBytes(Char, Int32, Int32, Byte, Int32) | When overridden in a derived class, encodes a set of characters from the specified character array into the specified byte array. |
| GetBytes(String, Int32, Int32, Byte, Int32) | When overridden in a derived class, encodes a set of characters from the specified string into the specified byte array. |
| GetCharCount(Byte) | When overridden in a derived class, calculates the number of characters produced by decoding all the bytes in the specified byte array. |
| GetCharCount(Byte*, Int32) | When overridden in a derived class, calculates the number of characters produced by decoding a sequence of bytes starting at the specified byte pointer. |
| GetCharCount(Byte, Int32, Int32) | When overridden in a derived class, calculates the number of characters produced by decoding a sequence of bytes from the specified byte array. |
| GetChars(Byte) | When overridden in a derived class, decodes all the bytes in the specified byte array into a set of characters. |
| GetChars(Byte, Int32, Int32) | When overridden in a derived class, decodes a sequence of bytes from the specified byte array into a set of characters. |
| GetChars(Byte*, Int32, Char*, Int32) | When overridden in a derived class, decodes a sequence of bytes starting at the specified byte pointer into a set of characters that are stored starting at the specified character pointer. |
| GetChars(Byte, Int32, Int32, Char, Int32) | When overridden in a derived class, decodes a sequence of bytes from the specified byte array into the specified character array. |
| GetHashCode | Returns the hash code for the current instance. (Overrides ObjectGetHashCode.) |
| GetString(Byte) | When overridden in a derived class, decodes all the bytes in the specified byte array into a string. |
| GetString(Byte, Int32, Int32) | When overridden in a derived class, decodes a sequence of bytes from the specified byte array into a string. |
| GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
 | MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
| ToString | Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.) |
Properties| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
  | ASCII | Gets an encoding for the ASCII (7-bit) character set. |
| BigEndianUnicode | Gets an encoding for the UTF-16 format that uses the big endian byte order. |
| Unicode | Gets an encoding for the UTF-16 format using the little endian byte order. |
| UTF7 | Gets an encoding for the UTF-7 format. |
| UTF8 | Gets an encoding for the UTF-8 format. |
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