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Use an encoder and a decoder to encode a string into an array of bytes, and then decode the bytes into an array of characters.
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Imports System
Imports System.Text
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Public Class MainClass
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim u16 As New UnicodeEncoding(False, True, True)
Dim myEnc As Encoder = u16.GetEncoder()
Dim myDec As Decoder = u16.GetDecoder()
Dim myChars() As Char = {"z"c, "a"c, ChrW(&H0306)}
Dim iBC As Integer = myEnc.GetByteCount(myChars, 0, myChars.Length, True)
Dim myBytes(iBC - 1) As Byte
myEnc.GetBytes(myChars, 0, myChars.Length, myBytes, 0, True)
Dim i As Integer
For i = 0 To myBytes.Length - 1
Console.Write("{0:X2} ", myBytes(i))
Next i
Dim iCC As Integer = myDec.GetCharCount(myBytes, 0, myBytes.Length, True)
Dim myDecodedChars(iCC - 1) As Char
myDec.GetChars(myBytes, 0, myBytes.Length, myDecodedChars, 0, True)
Console.WriteLine(myDecodedChars)
End Sub
End Class
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