Description
System.Text.UTF8Encoding encodes Unicode characters using the UTF-8 encoding (UCS Transformation Format, 8-bit form). This encoding supports all Unicode character values.
[Note: UTF-8 encodes Unicode characters with a variable number of bytes per character. This encoding is optimized for the lower 127 ASCII characters, yielding an efficient mechanism to encode English in an internationalizable way. The UTF-8 identifier is the Unicode byte-order mark (0xFEFF) written in UTF-8 (0xEF 0xBB 0xBF). The byte-order mark is used to distinguish UTF-8 text from other encodings. This class offers an error-checking feature that can be turned on when an instance of the class is constructed. Certain methods in this class check for invalid sequences ...
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