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A System.Text.Encoding for the Unicode format in little-endian byte order. [Edit]

Remarks

This property is read-only.

Note:

Unicode characters can be stored in two different byte orders, big-endian and little-endian. On little-endian platforms such as those implemented on Intel processors, it is generally more efficient to store Unicode characters in little-endian byte order. However, many other platforms can store Unicode characters in big-endian byte order. Unicode files can be distinguished by the presence of the byte order mark (U+FEFF), which will be written as either 0xfe 0xff or 0xff 0xfe.

This encoding automatically detects a byte order mark and, if necessary, switches byte orders.

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Requirements

Namespace: System.Text
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0