Imports System
Imports System.Text
Class MainClass
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim chars() As Char
Dim bytes() As Byte = {5, 0, 10, 0, 105, 0, 99, 0, 111, 0, 100, 0, 101, 0}
Dim uniDecoder As Decoder = Encoding.Unicode.GetDecoder()
Dim charCount As Integer = uniDecoder.GetCharCount(bytes, 0, bytes.Length)
chars = New Char(charCount - 1) {}
Dim charsDecodedCount As Integer = uniDecoder.GetChars(bytes, 0, bytes.Length, chars, 0)
Console.WriteLine(charsDecodedCount)
Dim c As Char
For Each c In chars
Console.Write("[{0}]", c)
Next c
End Sub
End Class