c# - Is data “lost” when using binary data in a string?

Question

I\'ve tried reading a JPG file using the StreamReader class\' ReadToEnd() method which returns a string.

For some reason though, when I wri

Answer 1

Strings use Unicode encoding by default, unicode uses the NUL character as a control character, double NUL is used for termination, a single NUL is used to represent an ASCII character before it.

Its for this reason that binary data cannot be loaded into a string.