Just to demonstrate that Mehrdrad's sound answeranswer works, his approach can even persist the unpaired surrogate characters(of which many had leveled against my answer, but of which everyone are equally guilty of, e.g. System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes, System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes; those encoding methods can't persist the high surrogate characters d800 for example, and those just merely replace high surrogate characters with value fffd ) :
using System;
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string t = "爱虫";
string s = "Test\ud800Test";
byte[] dumpToBytes = GetBytes(s);
string getItBack = GetString(dumpToBytes);
foreach (char item in getItBack)
{
Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", item, ((ushort)item).ToString("x"));
}
}
static byte[] GetBytes(string str)
{
byte[] bytes = new byte[str.Length * sizeof(char)];
System.Buffer.BlockCopy(str.ToCharArray(), 0, bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
return bytes;
}
static string GetString(byte[] bytes)
{
char[] chars = new char[bytes.Length / sizeof(char)];
System.Buffer.BlockCopy(bytes, 0, chars, 0, bytes.Length);
return new string(chars);
}
}
Output:
T 54
e 65
s 73
t 74
? d800
T 54
e 65
s 73
t 74
Try that with System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes or System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes, they will merely replace high surrogate characters with value fffd
Every time there's a movement in this question, I'm still thinking of a serializer(be it from Microsoft or from 3rd party component) that can persist strings even it contains unpaired surrogate characters; I google this every now and then: serialization unpaired surrogate character .NET. This doesn't make me lose any sleep, but it's kind of annoying when every now and then there's somebody commenting on my answer that it's flawed, yet their answers are equally flawed when it comes to unpaired surrogate characters.
Darn, Microsoft should have just used System.Buffer.BlockCopy in its BinaryFormatter ツ
谢谢！
