Encoding Hierarchy

The following table lists the classes derived from System.Text.Encoding .

Derived Classes

Class	Description
System.Text.ASCIIEncoding	Represents an ASCII character encoding of Unicode characters.
System.Text.MLangCodePageEncoding
System.Text.UnicodeEncoding	Represents a UTF-16 encoding of Unicode characters.
System.Text.UTF32Encoding	Represents a UTF-32 encoding of Unicode characters.
System.Text.UTF7Encoding	Represents a UTF-7 encoding of Unicode characters.
System.Text.UTF8Encoding	Represents a UTF-8 encoding of Unicode characters.