Encoding.Default Property

public:
 static property System::Text::Encoding ^ Default { System::Text::Encoding ^ get(); };

public static System.Text.Encoding Default { get; }

static member Default : System.Text.Encoding

Public Shared ReadOnly Property Default As Encoding

Property Value

The default encoding for this .NET implementation.

Remarks

The behavior of the Default property varies between different .NET implementations:

• In .NET Framework: Returns the encoding that corresponds to the system's active code page. This is the same encoding returned by GetEncoding(Int32) when called with a codepage argument of 0.

• In .NET Core and later versions: Always returns a UTF8Encoding object. This behavior was changed to encourage the use of Unicode encodings for better cross-platform compatibility and data integrity.

For the most consistent results across different platforms and .NET implementations, consider using a specific Unicode encoding such as UTF-8 directly instead of relying on the default encoding. You can obtain UTF-8 encoding by calling Encoding.UTF8 or Encoding.GetEncoding(String) with "utf-8".

For more information about this API, see <see href="/dotnet/fundamentals/runtime-libraries/system-text-encoding-default">Supplemental API remarks for Encoding.Default</see>.