Re: TextEncodings. :P

> How do I input chr(240) and get out (unicode) &hF8FF?

Well, the first question is, what is chr(240)? 
By looking at a table of MacRoman characters and 
comparing to a unicode table, I see the character 
you're interested in appears to be an Apple logo. 
But the computer cannot know what you mean by 
chr(240) unless you tell it.  240 is a different 
character in different encodings.  It's an Apple 
symbol in MacRoman, but it's something else in 
WindowsLatin1, and something else again in 
Shift-JIS (a Japanese encoding).

So, what you want to do is tell the computer that 
you want character 240 *in MacRoman*.  You can do 
this with the following code:

  s = Encodings.MacRoman.Chr(240)

Now you've got the right character in the string, 
so any further conversions are easy.  For 
example, if you want to convert the string from 
MacRoman to Unicode, you'd use the 
ConvertEncoding function.  Note, though, that 
saying you want "Unicode" is a little vague. 
There are several varieties of Unicode.  The most 
common variations are UTF-8 and UTF-16.  You'd 
convert s to one of these like this:

  s = s.ConvertEncoding(Encodings.UTF8)

or

  s = s.ConvertEncoding(Encodings.UTF16)

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