(PowerShell) Send UTF-16 on TCP or TLS Socket

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Demonstrates how to send a string on a connected TCP or SSL/TLS socket such that it is the utf-16 byte representation that is sent.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$socket = New-Object Chilkat.Socket

$tls = $false
$maxWaitMs = 20000
$domainOrIpAddr = "example.com"
$port = 1234

# Connect to the whatever is expecting our connection...
$success = $socket.Connect($domainOrIpAddr,$port,$tls,$maxWaitMs)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($socket.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Let's say we have an XML file saved in the utf-16 byte representation,
# and we want to send it over the connection using the utf-16 byte representation...

# First the file into a Chilkat StringBuilder.
# Tell the LoadFile method that we are reading utf-16 bytes..
$sbXml = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$success = $sbXml.LoadFile("qa_data/xml/myUtf16.xml","utf-16")
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $("Failed to load utf-16 XML file..")
    exit
}

# Tell the socket object that we wish to send the utf-16 byte representation of the string.
$socket.StringCharset = "utf-16"

# Send the string as utf-16 bytes.
$success = $socket.SendSb($sbXml)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($socket.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Let's say we wanted to instead send the string as utf-8 bytes.
# Just tell the socket object...
$socket.StringCharset = "utf-8"

# Send the string as utf-8 bytes.
$success = $socket.SendSb($sbXml)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($socket.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# If our XML file was utf-8, then just tell the StringBuilder that we're reading utf-8.
# Once the text is properly contained in the StringBuilder, we can send the contents in any other charset (windows-1252, utf-16, utf-8, etc.) 
# as long as it make sense (i.e. we obviously can't send Japanese text using a single-byte charset such as Windows-1252).
$success = $sbXml.LoadFile("qa_data/xml/myUtf8.xml","utf-8")
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $("Failed to load utf-8 XML file..")
    exit
}

# Send as utf-16
$socket.StringCharset = "utf-16"

# Send the string as utf-16 bytes.
$success = $socket.SendSb($sbXml)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($socket.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

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