code page values

Question

apart from 1252 what other code page values can be used with getencoding() in vb.net?

System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).Getstring()

Answer 1

It depends on the platform. See Encoding.GetEncodings.

Answer 2

Well, any code page that's supported by your system. 437 is one of the old DOS code pages, for example, and 28591 is ISO-Latin-1.

Here's a list of lists of code pages from Microsoft, but you should use Encoding.GetEncodings to see what's available on your own machine. I suspect it's not comprehensive though - I'm pretty sure there's a code page for one of the EBCDIC encodings, and I can't see it listed there.

Generally though you should know what code page your incoming data is in, so you don't often need to know what other code pages are available.