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How to get UTF-16 byte array?

I have an UTF-8 string and I need to get the byte array of UTF-16 encoding, so how can I convert my string to UTF-16 byte array?

Update:
I mean we have Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes() or even Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes() function to get byte array of strings, what about UTF-16? We don't have any Encoding.UTF16.GetBytes() so how can I get the byte array?

Solution

  • For little-endian UTF-16, use Encoding.Unicode.

    For big-endian UTF-16, use Encoding.BigEndianUnicode.

    Alternatively, construct an explicit instance of UnicodeEncoding which allows you to specify the endianness, whether or not to include byte-order marks, and whether to throw an exception on invalid data.