Encoding: EncodingName (get)

When implemented in a derived class, gets the human-readable description of the current encoding.

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Remarks

The EncodingName property is intended for display. To find a name that can be passed to the GetEncoding method, use the WebName property.

Examples

The following example retrieves the different names for each encoding and displays the encodings with one or more names that are different from EncodingInfo.Name. It displays EncodingName but does not compare against it.

Public Sub Main()
    Debug.Print "Name                ";
    Debug.Print "CodePage  ";
    Debug.Print "BodyName            ";
    Debug.Print "HeaderName          ";
    Debug.Print "WebName             ";
    Debug.Print "Encoding.EncodingName"
    
    Dim Item    As Variant
    Dim ei      As EncodingInfo
    Dim e       As Encoding
    
    For Each Item In Encoding.GetEncodings
        Set ei = Item
        Set e = ei.GetEncoding
        
        If (ei.Name <> e.BodyName) Or (ei.Name <> e.HeaderName) Or (ei.Name <> e.WebName) Then
            Debug.Print CorString.Format("{0,-18}", ei.Name);
            Debug.Print CorString.Format("{0,-9}", e.CodePage);
            Debug.Print CorString.Format("{0,-18}", e.BodyName);
            Debug.Print CorString.Format("{0,-18}", e.HeaderName);
            Debug.Print CorString.Format("{0,-18}", e.WebName);
            Debug.Print e.EncodingName
        End If
    Next
End Sub

' This code produces the following output.
'
'    Name               CodePage  BodyName           HeaderName         WebName            Encoding.EncodingName
'    shift_jis          932       iso-2022-jp        iso-2022-jp        shift_jis          Japanese (Shift-JIS)
'    windows-1250       1250      iso-8859-2         windows-1250       windows-1250       Central European (Windows)
'    windows-1251       1251      koi8-r             windows-1251       windows-1251       Cyrillic (Windows)
'    Windows-1252       1252      iso-8859-1         Windows-1252       Windows-1252       Western European (Windows)
'    windows-1253       1253      iso-8859-7         windows-1253       windows-1253       Greek (Windows)
'    windows-1254       1254      iso-8859-9         windows-1254       windows-1254       Turkish (Windows)
'    csISO2022JP        50221     iso-2022-jp        iso-2022-jp        csISO2022JP        Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana)
'    iso-2022-kr        50225     iso-2022-kr        euc-kr             iso-2022-kr        Korean (ISO)

EncodingName

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Examples

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