Convert UTF 8 stream to UTF 16 encoding

Question

I get a stream in UTF8 format, But i would like to get it in UTF16 format as i get some unsupported international characters in C#. How do i achieve this

Which "*unsupported international characters*" did you get in C#? — Lion, Jun 28 '12 at 18:51
UTF-8 can represent every unicode character, so I'm not sure what changing the represenation to UTF-16 would achieve. — dlev, Jun 28 '12 at 18:51
Could you show us your code? The likelihood is that your stream is not really UTF-8. — Douglas, Jun 28 '12 at 18:52
Were you able to represent those international characters in UTF-16? — C.Evenhuis, Jun 28 '12 at 20:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 05 '12 at 08:39

If you get unsupported international characters the encoding you'd likely want to use is not UTF16 but: iso-8859-1

It correctly encodes characters such as: æ, ø, å

So when you declare your StreamReader you'd want to setup the encoding to use:

var sReader = new StreamReader(hResponse.GetResponseStream,
                               Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1"));

Hope this helps.

Convert UTF 8 stream to UTF 16 encoding

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