Encoding in action : Encode : File Stream C# Source Code

    

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

class Test
{
    public static void Main() 
    {        
        using (StreamWriter output = new StreamWriter("practice.txt")) 
        {
            // Create and write a string containing the symbol for Pi.
            string srcString = "Area = \u03A0r^2";

            // Convert the UTF-16 encoded source string to UTF-8 and ASCII.
            byte[] utf8String = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(srcString);
            byte[] asciiString = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(srcString);
            
            // Write the UTF-8 and ASCII encoded byte arrays. 
            output.WriteLine("UTF-8  Bytes: {0}", BitConverter.ToString(utf8String));
            output.WriteLine("ASCII  Bytes: {0}", BitConverter.ToString(asciiString));
            
            
            // Convert UTF-8 and ASCII encoded bytes back to UTF-16 encoded  
            // string and write.
            output.WriteLine("UTF-8  Text : {0}", Encoding.UTF8.GetString(utf8String));
            output.WriteLine("ASCII  Text : {0}", Encoding.ASCII.GetString(asciiString));

            Console.WriteLine(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(utf8String));
            Console.WriteLine(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(asciiString));
        }
    }
}