Question

I’ve made a class to encode a string

Public Class UTF8
    Public Shared Function encode(ByVal str As String)
        Dim utf8Encoding As New System.Text.UTF8Encoding
        Dim encodedString() As Byte

        encodedString = utf8Encoding.GetBytes(str)

        Return encodedString.ToString()
    End Function
End Class

Return encodedString.ToString() always returns “System.Byte[]”. How could I get the real UTF-8 String?

Answer 1

Use UTF8.GetString(Byte[]) method.