Chapter 3-Lesson 2

• Encoding converts byte values into characters.
• .NET 2.0 supports encoding in UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, ASCII and ANSI/ISO using System.Text.Encoding. In .NET 3.5 its all present in System.Text namespace.
• Code Pages in .NET Framework include IBM-EBCDIC as well as UTF-7 and UTF-8 standards.
• The default encoding type in framework is UTF-16.