bigloo.foreign.utf8_string_to_ucs2_string C# (CSharp) Method

        public static char[] utf8_string_to_ucs2_string( byte[]  bytes )
        {
            int          nb= bytes.Length;
            int          nc= utf8length( bytes, nb );
            char[]       chars= new char[nc];
            int          i= 0;

            for ( int j= 0 ; j < nc ; ++j )
            {
               byte       b= bytes[i];

               if ((b & 0x80) == 0)
               {
              chars[j]= (char)b;
              ++i;
               }
               else if ((b & 0x20) == 0)
               {
              chars[j]= (char)(((b & 0x1F) << 6) | (bytes[i+1] & 0x3F));
              i+= 2;
               }
               else
               {
              chars[j]= (char)(  ((b & 0x0F) << 12)
                     | ((bytes[i+1] & 0x3F) << 6)
                     | (bytes[i+2] & 0x3F));
              i+= 3;
               }
            }

            return chars;
        }