Write utf8 encoded string

[Samuel]

Hi

I am trying to write to a string text encoded to utf8 as oppose to utf16

Since the data comes from an XML object (and I serialize it) I need to pass
either StreamWriter or a StringWriter object, I don't want to create a file
so I want to use a StringWriter (passing to it's constructor a
StringBuilder) The problem is that the StringWriter encodes utf16 (I don't
know how to change it)

Any Advice?

Thank you in advance,
Samuel

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=F6ran_Andersson?=]

Samuel wrote:

I am trying to write to a string text encoded to utf8 as oppose to utf16

Since the data comes from an XML object (and I serialize it) I need to pass
either StreamWriter or a StringWriter object, I don't want to create a file
so I want to use a StringWriter (passing to it's constructor a
StringBuilder) The problem is that the StringWriter encodes utf16 (I don't
know how to change it)

No, a StringWriter doesn't encode anything at all. What you write to it
ends up in the internal StringBuilder as characters, not encoded as bytes.

Why do you think that the StringWriter would encode the text? How are
you using it?

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Samuel" <sa************ @ntlworld.comsc hrieb:

I am trying to write to a string text encoded to utf8 as oppose to utf16

Since the data comes from an XML object (and I serialize it) I need to
pass either StreamWriter or a StringWriter object, I don't want to create
a file so I want to use a StringWriter (passing to it's constructor a
StringBuilder) The problem is that the StringWriter encodes utf16 (I don't
know how to change it)

Strings in .NET are always encoded in UTF-16 when stored in memory. You
cannot change that. If you want to get the byte representation of a string
in a certain encoding, check 'System.Text.En coding.GetBytes '.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Patrice]

The String type deals with utf16 strings only. Of course you can use an utf8
encoding when reading/writing from/to an external destination (such as a
file or a web browser response stream).

Not sure why you want to keep the string using utf8 but I'm afraid that
depending on what you'll do with the string it could well introduce some
subtil problems (I would keep it a s abyte array in the worst case if
possible)...

You may want to elaborate about what you are trying to do and in particular
what you'll do with this string once encoded using utf8 (for example even
with creating mails the idea is that .NET always uses utf16 but you can ask
to encode as utf8 when you write youtr content to the mail object, a file, a
browser stream, a database etc...)
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Patrice

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Hi

I am trying to write to a string text encoded to utf8 as oppose to utf16

Since the data comes from an XML object (and I serialize it) I need to
pass either StreamWriter or a StringWriter object, I don't want to create
a file so I want to use a StringWriter (passing to it's constructor a
StringBuilder) The problem is that the StringWriter encodes utf16 (I don't
know how to change it)

Any Advice?

Thank you in advance,
Samuel

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

>>THIS MAY NOT BE THE ACTUAL ENCODING

Herfried wrote:
STRINGS IN .NET ARE ALWAYS ENCODED IN UTF-16 WHEN STORED IN MEMORY