converting short to unicode without System.Text.Uni codeEncoding

[iwdu15]

hi, how can i convert type Short to Unicode strings? the
System.Text.Uni codeEncoding cant convert it if the length is too shrot....so
i need to do this manually. how can i do this
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-iwdu15

[Steven Nagy]

Aren't strings in dotnet in unicode by default?

Thus:
Dim s as short = 5
Dim u as string = CType(s, integer).ToStri ng()

Or am I completely missing the point here?

[Larry Lard]

iwdu15 wrote:

hi, how can i convert type Short to Unicode strings? the
System.Text.Uni codeEncoding cant convert it if the length is too shrot....so
i need to do this manually. how can i do this

What do you mean? Values of type Short are numbers - do you just want
their decimal representations ? All .NET Strings are Unicode, so you
just need to say

Dim myShort As Short = 5
Dim myString As String = myShort.ToStrin g
Encodings are for translating between bytes and characters.

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"iwdu15" <jmmgoalsteraty ahoodotcomschri eb:

hi, how can i convert type Short to Unicode strings?

I am not sure what you want to archieve, but maybe 'ChrW(x)' is what you are
looking for. Note that Microsoft unfortunately uses the term Unicode
instead of UTF-16. Strings are stored as UTF-16 in .NET.

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[iwdu15]

thanks, what im trying to o is read in header information from WMA and MP3
files. i did some reading on it and the websites i went to said that the .NET
functions for to Unicode characters needed a length of atleast 256 bytes....
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-iwdu15

[Steven Nagy]

256 bytes per unicode character? Wow, I don't think there are that many
alphabets in the Universe.

Is that statement even correct if you had of said 256 bits ? Thats 32
bytes I think. Thats, what, a double?

I'm just confusing myself.

iwdu15 wrote:

thanks, what im trying to o is read in header information from WMA and MP3
files. i did some reading on it and the websites i went to said that the .NET
functions for to Unicode characters needed a length of atleast 256 bytes....
--
-iwdu15

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Steven Nagy" <le*********@ho tmail.comschrie b:

256 bytes per unicode character? Wow, I don't think there are that many
alphabets in the Universe.

Is that statement even correct if you had of said 256 bits ? Thats 32
bytes I think. Thats, what, a double?

In UTF-32 each character is encoded using 32 bits (4 bytes). UTF-16 uses 16
bits per character and 32 bits (surrogate pairs) for some Chinese
characters.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
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