Encoding.EncodingName Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Text

Assembly:

System.Runtime.dll

Source:

Encoding.cs

When overridden in a derived class, gets the human-readable description of the current encoding.

public:
 virtual property System::String ^ EncodingName { System::String ^ get(); };

public virtual string EncodingName { get; }

member this.EncodingName : string

Public Overridable ReadOnly Property EncodingName As String

Property Value

String

The human-readable description of the current Encoding.

Examples

The following example retrieves the different names for each encoding and displays the encodings with one or more names that are different from EncodingInfo.Name. It displays EncodingName but does not compare against it.

using namespace System;
using namespace System::Text;
int main()
{
   
   // Print the header.
   Console::Write( "Name               " );
   Console::Write( "CodePage  " );
   Console::Write( "BodyName           " );
   Console::Write( "HeaderName         " );
   Console::Write( "WebName            " );
   Console::WriteLine( "Encoding.EncodingName" );
   
   // For every encoding, compare the name properties with EncodingInfo.Name.
   // Display only the encodings that have one or more different names.
   System::Collections::IEnumerator^ myEnum = Encoding::GetEncodings()->GetEnumerator();
   while ( myEnum->MoveNext() )
   {
      EncodingInfo ^ ei = safe_cast<EncodingInfo ^>(myEnum->Current);
      Encoding^ e = ei->GetEncoding();
      if (  !ei->Name->Equals( e->BodyName ) ||  !ei->Name->Equals( e->HeaderName ) ||  !ei->Name->Equals( e->WebName ) )
      {
         Console::Write( "{0,-18} ", ei->Name );
         Console::Write( "{0,-9} ", e->CodePage );
         Console::Write( "{0,-18} ", e->BodyName );
         Console::Write( "{0,-18} ", e->HeaderName );
         Console::Write( "{0,-18} ", e->WebName );
         Console::WriteLine( "{0} ", e->EncodingName );
      }
   }
}

/* 
This code produces the following output.

Name               CodePage  BodyName           HeaderName         WebName            Encoding.EncodingName
shift_jis          932       iso-2022-jp        iso-2022-jp        shift_jis          Japanese (Shift-JIS)
windows-1250       1250      iso-8859-2         windows-1250       windows-1250       Central European (Windows)
windows-1251       1251      koi8-r             windows-1251       windows-1251       Cyrillic (Windows)
Windows-1252       1252      iso-8859-1         Windows-1252       Windows-1252       Western European (Windows)
windows-1253       1253      iso-8859-7         windows-1253       windows-1253       Greek (Windows)
windows-1254       1254      iso-8859-9         windows-1254       windows-1254       Turkish (Windows)
csISO2022JP        50221     iso-2022-jp        iso-2022-jp        csISO2022JP        Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana)
iso-2022-kr        50225     iso-2022-kr        euc-kr             iso-2022-kr        Korean (ISO)

*/

using System;
using System.Text;

public class SamplesEncoding  {

   public static void Main()  {

      // Print the header.
      Console.Write( "Name               " );
      Console.Write( "CodePage  " );
      Console.Write( "BodyName           " );
      Console.Write( "HeaderName         " );
      Console.Write( "WebName            " );
      Console.WriteLine( "Encoding.EncodingName" );

      // For every encoding, compare the name properties with EncodingInfo.Name.
      // Display only the encodings that have one or more different names.
      foreach( EncodingInfo ei in Encoding.GetEncodings() )  {
         Encoding e = ei.GetEncoding();

         if (( ei.Name != e.BodyName ) || ( ei.Name != e.HeaderName ) || ( ei.Name != e.WebName ))  {
            Console.Write( "{0,-18} ", ei.Name );
            Console.Write( "{0,-9} ",  e.CodePage );
            Console.Write( "{0,-18} ", e.BodyName );
            Console.Write( "{0,-18} ", e.HeaderName );
            Console.Write( "{0,-18} ", e.WebName );
            Console.WriteLine( "{0} ", e.EncodingName );
         }
      }
   }
}


/* 
This code produces the following output.

Name               CodePage  BodyName           HeaderName         WebName            Encoding.EncodingName
shift_jis          932       iso-2022-jp        iso-2022-jp        shift_jis          Japanese (Shift-JIS)
windows-1250       1250      iso-8859-2         windows-1250       windows-1250       Central European (Windows)
windows-1251       1251      koi8-r             windows-1251       windows-1251       Cyrillic (Windows)
Windows-1252       1252      iso-8859-1         Windows-1252       Windows-1252       Western European (Windows)
windows-1253       1253      iso-8859-7         windows-1253       windows-1253       Greek (Windows)
windows-1254       1254      iso-8859-9         windows-1254       windows-1254       Turkish (Windows)
csISO2022JP        50221     iso-2022-jp        iso-2022-jp        csISO2022JP        Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana)
iso-2022-kr        50225     iso-2022-kr        euc-kr             iso-2022-kr        Korean (ISO)

*/

Imports System.Text

Public Class SamplesEncoding   

   Public Shared Sub Main()

      ' Print the header.
      Console.Write("Name               ")
      Console.Write("CodePage  ")
      Console.Write("BodyName           ")
      Console.Write("HeaderName         ")
      Console.Write("WebName            ")
      Console.WriteLine("Encoding.EncodingName")

      ' For every encoding, compare the name properties with EncodingInfo.Name.
      ' Display only the encodings that have one or more different names.
      Dim ei As EncodingInfo
      For Each ei In  Encoding.GetEncodings()
         Dim e As Encoding = ei.GetEncoding()
         
         If ei.Name <> e.BodyName OrElse ei.Name <> e.HeaderName OrElse ei.Name <> e.WebName Then
            Console.Write("{0,-18} ", ei.Name)
            Console.Write("{0,-9} ",  e.CodePage)
            Console.Write("{0,-18} ", e.BodyName)
            Console.Write("{0,-18} ", e.HeaderName)
            Console.Write("{0,-18} ", e.WebName)
            Console.WriteLine("{0} ", e.EncodingName)
         End If

      Next ei 

   End Sub

End Class


'This code produces the following output.
'
'Name               CodePage  BodyName           HeaderName         WebName            Encoding.EncodingName
'shift_jis          932       iso-2022-jp        iso-2022-jp        shift_jis          Japanese (Shift-JIS)
'windows-1250       1250      iso-8859-2         windows-1250       windows-1250       Central European (Windows)
'windows-1251       1251      koi8-r             windows-1251       windows-1251       Cyrillic (Windows)
'Windows-1252       1252      iso-8859-1         Windows-1252       Windows-1252       Western European (Windows)
'windows-1253       1253      iso-8859-7         windows-1253       windows-1253       Greek (Windows)
'windows-1254       1254      iso-8859-9         windows-1254       windows-1254       Turkish (Windows)
'csISO2022JP        50221     iso-2022-jp        iso-2022-jp        csISO2022JP        Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana)
'iso-2022-kr        50225     iso-2022-kr        euc-kr             iso-2022-kr        Korean (ISO)

Remarks

The EncodingName property is intended for display. To find a name that can be passed to the GetEncoding method, use the WebName property.

See also

• DisplayName
• BodyName
• HeaderName
• WebName