System.Text.EncodingInfo Class

Provides basic information about an encoding.

See Also: EncodingInfo Members

Syntax

public sealed class EncodingInfo

Remarks

This class is primarily used by the System.Text.Encoding class. The Encoding.GetEncodings method returns an array of this type.

This class is intended to provide minimal information about an encoding. To obtain additional information, the application should use the EncodingInfo.GetEncoding method to get an instance of the System.Text.Encoding class, which contains more comprehensive information about the encoding it represents.

Requirements

Namespace: System.Text
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Assembly Versions: 2.0.0.0, 4.0.0.0
Since: .NET 2.0