Storing a string as UTF8 in C#

Question

I\'m doing a lot of string manipulation in C#, and really need the strings to be stored one byte per character. This is because I need gigabytes of text simultaneously in memory

Answer 1

As you've found, the CLR uses UTF-16 for character encoding. Your best bet may be to use the Encoding classes & a BitConverter to handle the text. This question has some good examples for converting between the two encodings:

Convert String (UTF-16) to UTF-8 in C#