Encoding Class represents a character encoding.
Imports System Imports System.Text Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic Namespace Convert_Example Class MyConvertExampleClass Shared Sub Main() Dim unicodeString As String = " Pi:" & ChrW(&H03A0) Dim ascii As Encoding = Encoding.ASCII Dim [unicode] As Encoding = Encoding.Unicode Dim unicodeBytes As Byte() = [unicode].GetBytes(unicodeString) End Sub End Class End Namespace