使用C＃序列化二进制字符串，然后使用C ++反序列化

Question

I'm struggling to find an effective way to serialize a string that could contain both unicode and non-unicode characters into a binary array which I then serialize to a file that I have to deserialize using C++.

I have already implemented a serializer/deserializer in C++ which I use to do most of my serialization which can handle both unicode and non-unicode characters (basically I convert non-unicode characters into their unicode equivalent and serialize everything as a unicode string, not the most effective way since every string now has 2 bytes per character but works).

What I'm trying to achieve is to transform an arbitrary string into a 2 byte per character string that I can then deserialize from C++.

What would be the most effective effective way to achieve what I'm looking for?

Also, any suggestion regarding the way I'm serializing strings is well accepted of course.

Answer 1

Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes("my string") encodes the string as UTF-16, which has a size of 2 Bytes for each character. So if you are searching still an alternative consider the encoding.