C#

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//<---ENCODE (turn into bytes) ---><br />
//Start with a string<br />
			string sInput="The quick brown fox jumped over the six lazy dogs!";<br />
			<br />
			//convert it from unicode to an array of bytes<br />
			byte[] b = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(sInput.ToCharArray());<br />
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			//<---DECODE (turn into unicode text)---><br />
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			//Get a decoder object for unicode arrays<br />
			Decoder d = Encoding.Unicode.GetDecoder();<br />
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			//Create a character array to hold the results of the decode<br />
			//(because decoder doesn't decode directly to a string)<br />
			char[] ch= new char[d.GetCharCount(b,0,b.GetLength(0))];<br />
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			//Decode the bytes to string<br />
			d.GetChars(b,0,b.GetLength(0),ch,0);<br />
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			//Construct a new string from the character array<br />
            string sOut=new string(ch);<br />
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			//that's it.  SOut now contains original sInput string

byte[] myByteArray = DoSomething();
System.Text.UnicodeEncoding encoder = new System.Text.UnicodeEncoding();
string result = encoder.GetString(myByteArray);

      //Unselect all items (not needed if you've only just created the ListBox)<br />
      listBox1.SelectedIndex = -1;<br />
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      //Select second, fourth, ..., items (each time a new item is assigned to<br />
      //.SelectedItem that item is added to the collection of selected items)<br />
      for (int i = 1; i < listBox1.Items.Count; i += 2)<br />
        listBox1.SelectedItem = listBox1.Items[i];