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I have code:
string text = sampleTextBox.Text;
and I’m wondering in what encoding text is? Is it utf16 (as it is string) or maybe it is my operating system encoding?
It’s all Unicode, basically – there’s no conversion between the .NET textual types (
char/string) and binary going on, so there’s no encoding to worry about.You potentially need to worry about surrogate pairs to get from the UTF-16 textual representation of
charandstringto full UTF-32, but that’s slightly different to the normal encoding issues.Philosophically, a textbox contains text, not binary data. You should only be thinking about encodings when there’s a conversion to a binary format – such as a file.