How to determine encoding of a string.

[Frank Rizzo]

I read a string out of a database, which contains serialized objects.
How can I determine the encoding of the string?

Thanks

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

AFAIK there is no way to determine the encoding of a string, you will have
to save the encoding when you save the string in the first place.
--
Ignacio Machin
machin AT laceupsolutions com

"Frank Rizzo" <no**@none.comwrote in message
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>I read a string out of a database, which contains serialized objects. How
can I determine the encoding of the string?

Thanks

[Chris Mullins [MVP]]

"Frank Rizzo" <no**@none.comwrote

>I read a string out of a database, which contains serialized objects. How
can I determine the encoding of the string?

If the datatype that you're using in .Net is a string, then the encoding is
UTF-16. By definition, all .Net strings are UTF-16 encoded.

The only way you can have a different encoding is if you're reading the data
out of the database as a byte array. If you're looking at a byte array, I
don't know of any definitive way to tell the encoding.

--
Chris Mullins, MCSD.NET, MCPD:Enterprise, MVP C#
http://www.coversant.net/blogs/cmullins

[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

I agree. By design, all the strings in .NET is Unicode. The strings can
only be encoded to byte array with other formats. If you need to maintain
the encoding information, you can try to add some bytes at the beginning of
the array.

If anything is unclear, please feel free to let me know.

Kevin Yu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi Frank,

I'd like to know if this issue has been resolved yet. Is there anything
that I can help. I'm still monitoring on it. If you have any questions,
please feel free to post them in the community.

Kevin Yu
Microsoft Online Community Support
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