How C# and Visual Basic handle characters and single-character strings is a bit inconsistent. There's no tidy solution, but it's something you do need to know.

This is supposed to be simple but I must be a bloody idiot.How can I get the unicode value (e.g. 0xFFFD) of a given char?By extension, how can I get the GB or Big-5 encoding? (I'm guessing this ...