CharsetDecoder.AverageCharsPerByte Method

Definition

Returns the average number of characters that will be produced for each byte of input.

[Android.Runtime.Register("averageCharsPerByte", "()F", "")]
public float AverageCharsPerByte ();
[<Android.Runtime.Register("averageCharsPerByte", "()F", "")>]
member this.AverageCharsPerByte : unit -> single

Returns

The average number of characters produced per byte of input

Attributes

Remarks

Returns the average number of characters that will be produced for each byte of input. This heuristic value may be used to estimate the size of the output buffer required for a given input sequence.

Java documentation for java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder.averageCharsPerByte().

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Applies to