Hello

 I have this string

Dim MyString as String = "My Text"

I want to convert it to a UTF-8 encoding type or to any other encoding type I specify, how do I do that?

use System.Text.Encoding.Convert static method..

You are looking at Line numbers 11, 12 and 18, 23 and 25.  Please note this code is taken at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding(VS.71).aspx

Let me know further queries.

1    Imports System
2    Imports System.Text
3    Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
4    
5    Namespace Convert_Example
6        Class MyConvertExampleClass
7            Shared Sub Main()
8                Dim unicodeString As String = "This string contains the unicode character Pi(" & ChrW(&H03A0) & ")"
9    
10               ' Create two different encodings.
11               Dim ascii As Encoding = Encoding.ASCII
12               Dim [unicode] As Encoding = Encoding.Unicode
13   
14               ' Convert the string into a byte[].
15               Dim unicodeBytes As Byte() = [unicode].GetBytes(unicodeString)
16   
17               ' Perform the conversion from one encoding to the other.
18               Dim asciiBytes As Byte() = Encoding.Convert([unicode], ascii, unicodeBytes)
19   
20               ' Convert the new byte[] into a char[] and then into a string.
21               ' This is a slightly different approach to converting to illustrate
22               ' the use of GetCharCount/GetChars.
23               Dim asciiChars(ascii.GetCharCount(asciiBytes, 0, asciiBytes.Length)) As Char
24               ascii.GetChars(asciiBytes, 0, asciiBytes.Length, asciiChars, 0)
25               Dim asciiString As New String(asciiChars)
26   
27               ' Display the strings created before and after the conversion.
28               Console.WriteLine("Original string: {0}", unicodeString)
29               Console.WriteLine("Ascii converted string: {0}", asciiString)
30           End Sub
31       End Class
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