Convert Short Array to String C#

Question

Is it possible to convert short array to string, then show the text?

short[] a = new short[] {0x33, 0x65, 0x66, 0xE62, 0xE63};

There are utf16 (thai characters) contains in the array. How can it output and show the thai and english words?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You can get a string from a UTF16 byte array using this method:

System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(bytes)

However, this only accepts an byte array. So you first have to transform your shorts to bytes:

var bytes = a.SelectMany(x => BitConverter.GetBytes(x)).ToArray();

Or slightly more verbose but much more efficient code:

var bytes = new byte[a.Length * 2];
Buffer.BlockCopy(a, 0, bytes, 0, a.Length * 2);

Answer 2

I'm slightly ripping off everyone else's answers, but here is a cleaner way of doing the same thing:

short[] shorts = new short[] { 0x33, 0x65, 0x66, 0xE62, 0xE63 };
char[] chars = Array.ConvertAll(shorts, Convert.ToChar);
string result = new string(chars);