hi, how can i convert type Short to Unicode strings? the
System.Text.UnicodeEncoding cant convert it if the length is too shrot....so
i need to do this manually. how can i do this

Aren't strings in dotnet in unicode by default?

Thus:
Dim s as short = 5
Dim u as string = CType(s, integer).ToString()

Or am I completely missing the point here?

iwdu15 wrote:
What do you mean? Values of type Short are numbers - do you just want
their decimal representations? All .NET Strings are Unicode, so you
just need to say

Dim myShort As Short = 5
Dim myString As String = myShort.ToString


Encodings are for translating between bytes and characters.

I am not sure what you want to archieve, but maybe 'ChrW(x)' is what you are
looking for.  Note that Microsoft unfortunately uses the term Unicode
instead of UTF-16.  Strings are stored as UTF-16 in .NET.

thanks, what im trying to o is read in header information from WMA and MP3
files. i did some reading on it and the websites i went to said that the .NET
functions for to Unicode characters needed a length of atleast 256 bytes....

256 bytes per unicode character? Wow, I don't think there are that many
alphabets in the Universe.

Is that statement even correct if you had of said 256 bits ? Thats 32
bytes I think. Thats, what, a double?

I'm just confusing myself.



iwdu15 wrote:
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In UTF-32 each character is encoded using 32 bits (4 bytes).  UTF-16 uses 16
bits per character and 32 bits (surrogate pairs) for some Chinese
characters.

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