The SLAR on System.Text.ASCIIEncoding
The SLAR on System.Text.ASCIIEncoding
Continuing in the series on sharing some of the information in the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 here are some of the annotations on the ASCIIEncoding class.
Brad Abrams:Regrettably, the ASCIIEncoding class does not follow the standard naming
convention: it should really be called AsciiEncoding. We settled on the naming
convention for abbreviations too late in the cycle to fix this.
Brian Grunkemeyer: We hope that users will not choose ASCII for persisting data in files when they
can control the file format. We have fully shifted to Unicode, and our recommended
text transfer format is UTF-8, which is as compact as ASCII for US English text, yet
also supports all Unicode characters.
Jeff Richter: Normally, there is no need for your application code to construct an Encodingderived
object (such as ASCIIEncoding). Instead, you normally obtain an Encodingderived
object by calling one of Encoding class’s static, read-only properties. Here is an
example:
ASCIIEncoding asciiEncoding = Encoding.ASCII;
This is more efficient because it returns a reference to a single ASCIIEncoding object
rather than creating new ASCIIEncoding objects.