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UnicodeEncoding Enum

Definition

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Specifies the type of character encoding for a stream.

public enum class UnicodeEncoding
/// [Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract, 65536)]
enum class UnicodeEncoding
[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(typeof(Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract), 65536)]
public enum UnicodeEncoding
var value = Windows.Storage.Streams.UnicodeEncoding.utf8
Public Enum UnicodeEncoding
Inheritance
UnicodeEncoding
Attributes

Windows requirements

Requirements Description
Device family
Windows 10 (introduced in 10.0.10240.0)
API contract
Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract (introduced in v1.0)

Fields

Name Value Description
Utf8 0

The encoding is UTF-8.

Utf16LE 1

The encoding is UTF-16, with the least significant byte first in the two eight-bit bytes.

Utf16BE 2

The encoding is UTF-16, with the most significant byte first in the two eight-bit bytes.

Applies to

See also


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