Jun 28, 2015 · 21 In .NET, a byte is basically a number from 0 to 255 (the numbers that can be represented by eight bits). So, a byte array is just an array of the numbers 0 - 255. At a lower level, …

Endianness and byte order When a value larger than byte is stored or serialized into multiple bytes, the choice of the order in which the component bytes are stored is called byte order, or endian, or …

Dec 6, 2025 · I'm getting many errors of the following type. Clearly, Microsoft has a definition of byte that clashes with Standard C++'s definition of std::byte (after a using namespace std, that I use in hund...

Jun 26, 2012 · I have to store some constant values (UUIDs) in byte array form in java, and I'm wondering what the best way to initialize those static arrays would be. This is how I'm currently doing …

Jan 19, 2010 · I have a blob column in my database table, for which I have to use byte[] in my Java program as a mapping and to use this data I have to convert it to InputStream or OutputStream. But I …

Apr 7, 2019 · UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte Please see my screenshot here: I don't know either how to save the original data without losing those …

It causes problems with non-BOM-aware software. A better way to detect whether a file is UTF-8 is to perform a validity check. UTF-8 has strict rules about what byte sequences are valid, so the …

Dec 2, 2016 · In C#, byte is the data type for 8-bit unsigned integers, so a byte [] should be an array of integers who are between 0 and 255, just like an char [] is an array of characters.

Oct 26, 2010 · A byte is 8 bits (binary data). A byte array is an array of bytes (tautology FTW!). You could use a byte array to store a collection of binary data, for example, the contents of a file. The …

Apr 18, 2013 · If you already have a byte array then you will need to know what type of encoding was used to make it into that byte array. For example, if the byte array was created like this: