Encoding of a string in c#

Question

I was translating some C++ code to C# and I saw the below function

myMultiByteToWideChar( encryptedBufUnicode, (char*)encryptedBuf, sizeof(encryptedBufUnicode) );

This basically converts the char array to unicode.

In C#, aren't strings and char arrays already unicode? Or do we need to make it unicode using a system.text function?

SLaks · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-22 13:52:52Z

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C# strings and characters are UTF-16.

If you have an array of bytes, you can use the Encoding class to read it as a string using a correct encoding.

answered Oct 22, 2013 at 13:52

SLaks

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