C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0: Modern Cross-Platform Development

Encoding text

Text characters can be represented in different ways. For example, the Western alphabet can be encoded using Morse code, into a series of dots and dashes for transmission over a telegraph line.

In a similar way, text inside a computer is stored as bits; ones and zeros. .NET uses a standard called Unicode to encode text internally. Sometimes, you will need to move text outside .NET for use by systems that do not use Unicode or use a variation of Unicode. The following table shows some alternative encodings:

Encoding	Description
ASCII	Encodes a limited range of characters using the lower seven bits of a byte
UTF-8	Represents each Unicode code point as a sequence of one to four bytes
UTF-16	Represents each Unicode code point ...