Unicode string in C#

Question

I remember using Unicode string in C++ such as this:

std::wstring str = _T("a string here");

What is the equivalent in C#?

Answer 1

The equivalent in C# is the String class.

According to MSDN :

(A String) Represents text as a series of Unicode characters.

[...] Each code point is encoded using UTF-16 encoding

So, if you do string str = "a string here"; , you have a Unicode string.

Answer 2

Use System.Text.UnicodeEncoding class. This handles UTF-16 encoding of Unicode characters.