Xojo Plugin

StringBuilder Encode Charset

Demonstrates the importance of the charset argument when encoding/decoding. Xojo Plugin

Dim s As String
s = "é é é"

Dim sb As New Chilkat.StringBuilder

Dim success As Boolean
success = sb.Append(s)
success = sb.EntityDecode()

// The string now contains: "é é é"
System.DebugLog(sb.GetAsString())

// If encoded to hex using the iso-8859-1 charset, 
// each é char is represented in 1 byte.
// Output: E920E920E9
System.DebugLog(sb.GetEncoded("hex","iso-8859-1"))

// If encoded to hex using the utf-8 charset, 
// each é char is represented in 2 bytes.
// Output: C3A920C3A920C3A9
System.DebugLog(sb.GetEncoded("hex","utf-8"))

// Here's utf-16
// Output: E9002000E9002000E900
System.DebugLog(sb.GetEncoded("hex","utf-16"))

// utf-32
// Output: E900000020000000E900000020000000E9000000
System.DebugLog(sb.GetEncoded("hex","utf-32"))