I am trying to write a little program in C# for working with Chinese. I need to accomplish these tasks:
a. Read text from a file or webpage which is in a local format (including Big5, GB, and the various Japanese formats), and convert it to an internal format (presumably Unicode) that C# can deal with.
b. Take a String (in Unicode), and convert it back to a local encoding for storage in a file.
I don't know whether this will be code that is already available in C#, an already available package, or a custom class.
If you need text files, I can provide them.
## Deliverables
1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.
2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables):
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## Platform
Using Windows XP, Visual C#.