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Encoding Class represents a character encoding
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Imports System
Imports System.Text
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Class MyConvertExampleClass
Shared Sub Main()
Dim unicodeString As String = "Pi:" & ChrW(&H03A0)
Dim ascii As Encoding = Encoding.ASCII
Dim [unicode] As Encoding = Encoding.Unicode
Dim unicodeBytes As Byte() = [unicode].GetBytes(unicodeString)
Dim asciiBytes As Byte() = Encoding.Convert([unicode], ascii, unicodeBytes)
Dim asciiChars(ascii.GetCharCount(asciiBytes, 0, asciiBytes.Length)-1) As Char
ascii.GetChars(asciiBytes, 0, asciiBytes.Length, asciiChars, 0)
Dim asciiString As New String(asciiChars)
Console.WriteLine("Original string: {0}", unicodeString)
Console.WriteLine("Ascii converted string: {0}", asciiString)
End Sub
End Class
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