By using static methods from encoding we can convert byte array to string and string to byte array based on certain encoding.
using System;
using System.Text;
class Sample
{
public static void Main()
{
byte[] utf8Bytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("0123456789");
byte[] utf16Bytes = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes("0123456789");
byte[] utf32Bytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF32.GetBytes("0123456789");
Console.WriteLine(utf8Bytes.Length);
Console.WriteLine(utf16Bytes.Length);
Console.WriteLine(utf32Bytes.Length);
string original1 = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(utf8Bytes);
string original2 = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(utf16Bytes);
string original3 = System.Text.Encoding.UTF32.GetString(utf32Bytes);
Console.WriteLine(original1);
Console.WriteLine(original2);
Console.WriteLine(original3);
}
}
The output:
10
20
40
0123456789
0123456789
0123456789