Can the Encoding API decode a Stream/noncontinuous bytes?

Question

Usually we can get a string from a byte[] using something like

var result = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes);

However,

Answer 1

however Encoding cannot work on Stream, just byte[].

Correct but a StreamReader : TextReader can be linked to a Stream.

So just create that MemoryStream, push bytes in on one end and use ReadLine() on the other. I must say I have never tried that.