How do I convert unicode to readable string?

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I've written a POP3 class that access my email account and reads my messages but the body of the message is in unicode. How do I parse/convert this into a readable string?

Thanks in advance,
Donald

Posted 12-Jul-11 6:30am

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Nagy Vilmos · Answer 1 · 2011-07-12T06:49:00

Solution 1

Don't read the bytes, read it as a string. .net Strings are in unicode.

Posted 12-Jul-11 6:49am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Jul-11 14:41pm

Correct, but perhaps not clear to OP (too big confusion about encoding). My 5 for your answer.

I tried to explain a bit, more, please see my solution.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2011-07-12T08:40:00

Solution 2

Unicode is always readable, you just need to use proper control to read Unicode. All the .NET and .NET controls do show Unicode and internally use its UTF-16 encoding.

See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding.aspx[^],
http://unicode.org/[^],
http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html[^].

—SA

Posted 12-Jul-11 8:40am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Mohammad A Rahman 15-Jul-11 23:49pm

good answer :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Jul-11 0:00am

Thank you, Mohammad.
--SA