Create a string from a ByteArray, assuming it contains UTF-8 data:

Create a string from a ByteArray, interpreting the data as ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek:

Convert ASCII bytes of English capital letters to a string:

Compare different character encodings:

Import a webpage:

Extract the bytes of the page in a ByteArray object:

Convert the UTF-8 encoded data to a string:

Display the first five lines of the raw page:

All bytes can be represented in ISO8859-1:

The characters produced in this encoding have code points 0 to 255:

The length of the string generated is less than or equal to the length of the byte array:

An empty byte array produces an empty string:

An empty list is accepted as a synonym for an empty byte array:

ByteArrayToString[str] decodes UTF-8 bytes to a string representation:

FromCharacterCode[bytes] converts code points to a string:

ByteArrayToString is the inverse of StringToByteArray:

Not all byte sequences are valid UTF-8 codes:

Invalid bytes—in this case 162—are interpreted as literal code points:

Converting the string back to a byte array produces a different but valid UTF-8 byte sequence: