Five new globalization
features provide greater support for developing applications intended for
different languages and cultures.
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Support for custom cultures enables you to
define and deploy culture-related information as needed. This feature is useful
for creating minor customizations of existing culture definitions, and creating
culture definitions that do not yet exist in the .NET Framework. For more
information, see the CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder
class.
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Encoding and decoding operations map a Unicode
character to or from a stream of bytes that can be transferred to a physical
medium such as a disk or a communication line. If a mapping operation cannot be
completed, you can compensate by using the new encoding and decoding fallback
feature supported by several classes in the System.Text
namespace.
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Members in the UTF8Encoding
class, which implements UTF-8 encoding, are now several times faster than in
previous releases. UTF-8 is the most common encoding used to transform Unicode
characters into bytes on computers.
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The .NET Framework now supports the latest
normalization standard defined by the Unicode Consortium. The normalization
process converts character representations of text to a standard form so the
representations can be compared for equivalence.
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The GetCultureInfo
method overload provides a cached version of a read-only CultureInfo
object. Use the cached version when creating a new CultureInfo
object to improve system performance and reduce memory usage.
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